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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Sharif cautious about greeting Dr. Milton Bey?
(a) Dr. Bey's patients have a high mortality rate.
(b) Dr. Bey might be a British spy.
(c) He is concerned for Anna's safety.
(d) Being friendly to a British man might damage his reputation.

2. Why do Amal and Isabel find Sheikh Haroun's shrine padlocked in Chapter 15?
(a) It is now a proper mosque.
(b) It is a private mausoleum.
(c) The government wants to keep looters away.
(d) The shrine has been desecrated by protestors.

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

4. Why does Ahmad leave Palestine and return to Egypt?
(a) His mother is dying.
(b) He loses his land when Israel is unified in 1948.
(c) His uncle offers him a job in his shop.
(d) His father is dying.

5. What do Amal and Isabel discover carved into the baptismal font at the Mu'allaqah?
(a) A series of numbers.
(b) The hieroglyph for purity.
(c) The hieroglyph for water.
(d) Anna's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Amal and Isabel different?

2. Which friend of Amal's is carrying her fifth child in Chapter 8?

3. Where is Amal al-Ghamrawi when she has her terrifying dream?

4. What does Layla pack into Anna's saddleback before Anna leaves for Sinai?

5. Why did 'Urabi Basha lead a revolt?

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