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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect has personal sorrow had on Radwan Hussainy?
(a) It has made him pessimistic and fearful.
(b) It has made him loving and patient.
(c) It has made him sorrowful and despairing.
(d) It has made him cruel and unforgiving.

2. How long has the poet been reciting in Kirsha's cafe?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) All evening.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Two years.

3. What relation is Umm Hamida to Hamida?
(a) She is her foster mother.
(b) She was a wet nurse to the child.
(c) She is secrety her mother.
(d) She is her aunt.

4. What bad habits does Kirsha have?
(a) Coffee and tobacco.
(b) Hashish and relations with boys.
(c) Tobacco and lying.
(d) Alcohol and hashish.

5. What does Salim Alwan eat for lunch each day?
(a) Potatoes and vegetables.
(b) Rice and meat.
(c) Sprouted alfalfa with vegetables.
(d) Vegetables, potatoes, and a bowl of green wheat with pigeon meat and nutmeg.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hamida feel about Abbas?

2. How does Zaita help the strong man to become an efficient beggar?

3. What does Hamida believe is the key to the entire world?

4. Why is Sheik Darwish always welcome?

5. What do his jealous friends call Hussain Kirsha?

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