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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Amer think Plato's writings gave Socrates?
(a) Security.
(b) Vindication.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Nothing.

2. Who does Mansour think is the life of the party on the night of the Umm Kulthum concert
(a) Mariana.
(b) Amer.
(c) Zohra.
(d) Sarhan.

3. With whom would Sarhan wish to listen to the Umm Kulthum's concert?
(a) Safeya.
(b) No one.
(c) Mahmoud.
(d) Ali or Rafat.

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

5. About what do Sarhan and his friend Rafat Amin talk?
(a) Women.
(b) Marriage.
(c) The old days and Socialism.
(d) The Revolution.

6. Who does Mansour learn is arrested?
(a) Fawzi.
(b) Doreya.
(c) Hosny.
(d) Sarhan.

7. By what does Mansour say Zohra is surrounded?
(a) Imbeciles.
(b) Good people.
(c) Dangerous men.
(d) Incompetents.

8. Who does Sarhan encounter on the street and whom he finds different but familiar?
(a) Safeya.
(b) Zohra.
(c) Tolba.
(d) Mahmoud.

9. What does Sarhan declare has brought him and Zohra together?
(a) His seeing her in the grocery.
(b) Mariana.
(c) Fate.
(d) Amer.

10. About what do Mansour and Fawzi banter?
(a) Mansour leaving the party.
(b) Mansour's ex-wife.
(c) Mansour's fiance who becomes pregnant by another man.
(d) Mansour's new home.

11. Where do Mansour and Doreya next meet?
(a) A cafe on the Nile.
(b) The Miramar.
(c) The train to Cairo.
(d) The Corniche.

12. What does Sarhan do to later explain the sudden fortune he expects?
(a) Talks of the money he makes now.
(b) Talks about the cost of yarn.
(c) Talks about the rising cost of clothing.
(d) Tells stories that are not true.

13. What are Ali and Sarhan planning?
(a) To highjack a truckload of dried beans.
(b) To highjack a truckload of money.
(c) To highjack a truckload of clothing.
(d) To highjack a truckload of yarn.

14. To whose life does Ali say they will soon lead a similar one?
(a) Harun al-Rashid.
(b) Hablish Raman.
(c) Ali says they will live better than anyone else.
(d) Sarmish al-Hablid.

15. Who is Ali Bakir's lover?
(a) He does not have a lover.
(b) Sophie Garz.
(c) Safeya Barakat.
(d) Zohra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mansour try to do while Zohra is making his bed?

2. What does Mansour confess to Doreya?

3. What is the reason Doreya chose Fawzi to marry?

4. What did Zohra's grandfather do that made Zohra run away?

5. Where does Sarhan first see Zohra?

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