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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Amal get Isabel into the Atelier 'am Ghazzali?
(a) She dresses Isabel as an Egyptian woman.
(b) She claims Isabel is on a political march.
(c) She bribes Mahgoub al-Tilmisani.
(d) She tells Professor Yusuf that Isabel is her sister-in-law.

2. How are Amal and Isabel related?
(a) They are sisters.
(b) Amal is Isabel's aunt.
(c) Isabel is Amal's aunt.
(d) They are cousins.

3. What does Professor Yusuf claim brings meaning to life?
(a) Faith.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Love.
(d) Children.

4. Who is Arwa Salih?
(a) A young Palestinian protestor.
(b) Amal's old professor.
(c) A leader of student movement in the early 1970's.
(d) A mathematics professor at Cairo University.

5. What is the haramlek?
(a) A type of headgear worn by Egyptian men.
(b) A type of Egyptian hammock.
(c) The part of an Egyptian house occupied and governed by women.
(d) A latticework screen used in many Egyptian households.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Amal sleep poorly the night she reads about Anna and Sharif in the garden outside St. Catherine's Monastery?

2. While at the Atelier 'am Ghazzali, what empire does Arwa compare to the United States?

3. Why is Sharif cautious about greeting Dr. Milton Bey?

4. What must Sharif wait for before he can set up a school?

5. What does Amal find in the small blue book she removes from the trunk?

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