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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hamida blunder while the stranger is watching her?
(a) She ignores him.
(b) She speaks to him.
(c) She runs from him.
(d) She lets him see that she is watching him.

2. How does Abbas learn that Hamida left with a man?
(a) Uncle Kamil tells him.
(b) The factory girls tell him.
(c) Umm Hamida tells him.
(d) Hussain Kirsha tells him.

3. What does Hamida feel for Abbas as they walk together?
(a) Intense aversion.
(b) Neither attraction nor aversion.
(c) Deep curiosity.
(d) Intense attraction.

4. How does Sheikh Darwish respond to Ibrahim Farhat's request for a blessing?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He curses him.
(c) He promises him success.
(d) He agrees to pray for him.

5. Why does the stranger seem out of place in Midaq Alley?
(a) He is obviously investigating something.
(b) He is obviously unacquainted with the residents.
(c) He is obviously a foreigner.
(d) He is obviously well to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Ibrahim Farhat offer Kirsha for his support?

2. What does Abbas say that falling in love has done for him?

3. What does Radwan Hussainy pray for when he learns of Mrs. Kirsha's trouble?

4. Why do the boys advise Uncle Kamil to put up a poster of Ibrahim Farhat, the candidate?

5. What do Hussain Kirsha's modern friends have that he envies?

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