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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Sarhan al-Beheiry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarhan long to do about Safeya?
(a) Take her money and leave her.
(b) Find a good man for her.
(c) Leave her.
(d) Have the courage to marry her.

2. Who does Hosny feel is beneath him socially?
(a) Just Amer.
(b) Amer, Tolba and Sarhan.
(c) No one.
(d) Just Sarhan.

3. About what does Hosny obsess?
(a) That he wants to move to the United States.
(b) Being turned down for marriage.
(c) That his brother makes more money than he.
(d) That his sister is not yet married.

4. Who provides the alcohol for the people at the pension listening to the concert?
(a) Hosny.
(b) Mahmoud.
(c) Sarhan.
(d) No one.

5. What does Mansour do to Sarhan?
(a) Kicks him to death while Sarhan is unconscious.
(b) Breaks his nose in a deserted hallway at the Miramar.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Hits him at a motel in Cairo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Mansour and Doreya meet?

2. What does Sarhan say he and Zohra have in common?

3. Who announces Sarhan's murder?

4. Who does Hosny meet that he thinks would be worth marrying?

5. What does Hosny order his Maltese madam to do?

(see the answer key)

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