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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 134-165.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wad say when he heard Hosna's reaction to the marriage plans?
(a) That she should have two husbands.
(b) That she didn't have to marry him.
(c) That he will try to marry somebody else.
(d) That she was just a widow and will marry him.

2. What happened to the narrator while he looked around in the triangular room?
(a) No thoughts went through his head.
(b) He wanted to leave.
(c) He felt hungry.
(d) Many thoughts went through his head.

3. How long had the person asking for the cigarette been traveling?
(a) Four days.
(b) Two days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Four hours.

4. What kind of life did the grandfather live?
(a) A rich life.
(b) A comfortable life.
(c) A tiring life.
(d) An acetic life.

5. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Her husbands.
(d) Her siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mustafa suffer from?

2. How old is the strange man in the village the narrator is curious about?

3. Who was the narrator thinking about during his drive away from the village?

4. Whose voice did the narrator hear when he walked by his grandfather's house?

5. In what kind of condition were the narrator and his friend Mahjoub in when they talked about Mustafa?

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