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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ayaan's mother force her to tell her father the truth about in Chapter 9, "Abeh"?
(a) Her health.
(b) Her childhood.
(c) Her first marriage.
(d) Her second marraige.

2. What distant relative living in Canada did Ayaan's father tell her she would marry in Chapter 9, "Abeh"?
(a) Farah Goure.
(b) Osman Moussa.
(c) Ali Wersengeli.
(d) Theo van Gogh.

3. Where did Ayaan arrive with her mother, brother and sister and become stranded at the airport in Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace"?
(a) Jeddah.
(b) Matabaan.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) Riyadh.

4. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

5. Where did Osman Moussa tell Ayaan to return in Chapter 11, "A Trial by the Elders"?
(a) Germany.
(b) Finland.
(c) England.
(d) Holland.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Hirsi Magan Isse born?

2. What is a nonprofit organization for the defense of Muslim women's rights?

3. Who wrote the book "Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam"?

4. The film made by Ayaan and Theo van Gogh used what to imply that the religion subjected women to unbearable oppression?

5. A woman from where sends Ayaan a letter regarding her cousin in Chapter 8, "Refugees"?

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