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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who visits the man in "Divorce"?
2. How does the acquaintance in "The Discontented" feel when he sees the state official's home?
3. What does the acquaintance in "The Discontented" claim he knows nothing about?
4. What is the visitor's home like in "Dinner in the Black Market"?
5. Why does the state official's acquaintance believe his life is the way it is?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the two sisters in "Silence".
2. Why does the main character of "Divorce" leave his wife?
3. How does Zahra's husband change when he receives his "caid"?
4. What conversation do the main character in "Divorce" and his brother discuss in the hospital?
5. Who is the surprise guest in "A Vacation" and how does Roukia react to the visitor?
6. Why is Aziz nervous at the start of "The Stranger"?
7. Describe two ways the old man helps the sisters in "House in the Woods"?
8. What do the men in "The Discontented" blame the childhood friend's station in life on?
9. What offer does one man make to the other in "The Discontented" and what is the man's response to the offer?
10. What message does Aziz receive from his mother at the end of the story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the setting effect the reader's experience of the story? Does it matter that the story is set in another country? Describe the setting of the story of you choice and explain how it is intertwined with the plot.
Essay Topic 2
Who is Zahra's faqih (note the spelling of faqih) and what role does he play in her life choices ?
Essay Topic 3
When considering Abu Zayd's life, where do you believe she found the inspiration for her book? What does this book cause you to think about the author's life? Why was her book the first to translated from Arabic to English?
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