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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hosny do as he speeds through the city?
(a) Stops and visits his regular madames.
(b) Swears at Sarhan.
(c) Runs from the police.
(d) Screams out his frustrations.

2. What pervades the group that gathers to listen to Umm Kulthum?
(a) Congeniality.
(b) Aloofness.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Fear.

3. Who does Hosny drive to Mazarita?
(a) Amer.
(b) The woman who had been hitting Sarhan.
(c) Tolba.
(d) Zohra.

4. Who owns Wagdi's old residence?
(a) Mme. Flousey.
(b) Mme. Coulette.
(c) Mme. Mariana.
(d) Sir Bedouin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wagdi recall?

2. How does Tolba feel about the new male boarders?

3. What is Marzug to Mariana?

4. What does Hosny decide about Zohra?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hosny's attitude towards Zohra change?

2. Describe Mansour Bahy.

3. What commotion in the hallway does Hosny respond to, and what does he do?

4. How does Hosny feel about old people?

5. About what is Amer dreaming when he hears a ruckus in the hallway?

6. About what does Amer warn Zohra and why does he do so?

7. Why is Sarhan fighting a drunken Hosny in the hall one evening?

8. What do Amer and Mariana complain about and plan?

9. Describe Sarhan al-Beheiry.

10. How does Amer respond to the news that Zohra is taking reading lessons, and how do others respond?

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