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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprise awaited Roukia at home in "A Vacation"?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A friend.
(c) A plate of cookies.
(d) A cousin.

2. What does the state official offer his acquaintance?
(a) A car.
(b) Clothes.
(c) A house.
(d) A better paying job.

3. What religion does Aziz convert to?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Hindu.
(d) Muslim.

4. How did the two sisters in "Silence" differ?
(a) One was blonde and the one was brunette.
(b) One was young looking and the other sickly.
(c) One was deaf and the other was blind.
(d) One was rich and the other was poor.

5. Who does Roukia unlock the door for on a nightly basis?
(a) The ghosts.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zahra receive in the divorce?

2. What does the acquaintance in "The Discontented" claim he knows nothing about?

3. Who abandoned the man in "Divorce" when he was a child?

4. Who takes Zahra to a fortune teller?

5. What happens to the man in "Divorce" on his way home from work?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the two sisters in "Silence" react to Ramadan?

2. What do the men in "The Discontented" blame the childhood friend's station in life on?

3. What role does Yasmine play in the story "The Stranger"?

4. How does visitor attempt to help employee in "Dinner in the Black Market:"?

5. Who does not agree with Zahra's choice to move to Casablanca and why?

6. Describe the life of the woman in "Out of Work" while she was working.

7. Why does the main character of "Divorce" leave his wife?

8. What is the nightly ritual Roukia preforms? How does it help the family?

9. What do the husbands discover about visitor at the end of the story?

10. Describe the two sisters in "Silence".

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