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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Hosny Allam.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Amer ramble?
(a) That he knows Umm Kulthum personally.
(b) What a good catch Zohra would be.
(c) His heroic past.
(d) About his life as a journalist in Paris.

2. What does Zohra begin with a tenant on the fifth floor?
(a) Art lessons.
(b) Reading lessons.
(c) Music lessons.
(d) Fighting lessons.

3. Who does Hosny meet that he thinks would be worth marrying?
(a) Zohra's sister.
(b) Zohra's tutor.
(c) No one.
(d) Sarhan's sister.

4. Who does Hosny go and have sex with after failing to embrace Zohra in the hall?
(a) An aging Maltese madame.
(b) No one.
(c) His ex-wife.
(d) A woman he meets at the movies.

5. What is the bond between Amer and Mansour?
(a) Sports.
(b) Art.
(c) Science.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do all of the three younger boarders declare?

2. Who is Zohra?

3. About what does Hosny obsess?

4. What is Marzug to Mariana?

5. Who has a monthly radio concert?

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