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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 title does Ahmad hold at the party he throws in Chapter 16?
(a) The man.
(b) The bridegroom.
(c) Leader of the pack.
(d) The man of the hour.

2. Who vows to never leave Amina after visiting her in Chapter 33?
(a) Yasin.
(b) Kamal.
(c) Fahmy.
(d) Aisha.

3. What is wrong with Ahmad in Chapter 3 that makes noises anger him?
(a) He has a fever.
(b) He is hung over.
(c) He broke his foot.
(d) His eye is hurt.

4. What is on a provocative poster that Kamal looks at along with the shrine of al-Husayn?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Beer.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Women.

5. Where does Kamal see a bus heading at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) New Street.
(b) Sugar Street.
(c) Palace Walk.
(d) Coppersmith Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kamal envy about Yasin at the end of Chapter 9?

2. Who is jealous of Fahmy wanting to be married and points out Maryam's faults?

3. What grazes Amina after leaving a mosque that causes her injury?

4. What is the relationship between Fahmy and Yasin in the book?

5. How does Amina feel after she starts supervising the household from bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ahmad's daily ritual each morning described?

2. How does Yasin prowl for women in Chapter 12?

3. How is Yasin's meeting with his mother described in Chapter 18?

4. How does Ahmad react when a matchmaker hints that Mme. Nafusa wanted to be his second wife?

5. How is Aisha's beauty regimine described in the book?

6. How is Yasin and Amina's visit to the al-Husayn shrine described?

7. What happens to Amina after her broken collarbone has healed?

8. How does Yasin remember his happy childhood ruined by a fruit merchant?

9. What is the nature of Yasin's complaints about his mother when he visits Ahmad in Chapter 17?

10. What happens when Amina confesses leaving the house to visit the al-Husayn shrine to Ahmad?

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