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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Sultana fare during the purification process before the holy pilgrimage?
(a) She struggled greatly.
(b) She knew she would fail, so she refused to begin the process.
(c) She suffered a nervous breakdown.
(d) She devoted herself to the idea and had only a little trouble.

2. What was Amani like as a child?
(a) Quiet and studied a lot.
(b) Loud and obnoxious.
(c) Fearful and often worried she was not good enough.
(d) Sickly and always in the hospital.

3. What was Maha's relationship with Aisha?
(a) Aisha was the family's London housekeeper in whom Maha confided.
(b) Aisha was Maha's illegitimate child who was born in secret.
(c) They were secret lovers.
(d) Maha helped Aisha escape from her abusive elderly husband.

4. How did Amani's family handle her animal obsession?
(a) They sent her to boarding school where animals were not allowed.
(b) They hid the animals to protect Amani from arrest and punishment.
(c) They secretly took her animals during the night and told her they had been stolen.
(d) They built a small zoo and hired caretakers.

5. During the trip to London, what is revealed about Maha's relationship with her grandmother, Noorah?
(a) Noorah taught Maha about the occult.
(b) Noorah was the only member of the family Maha trusted completely.
(c) Noorah had plotted with Maha to kill Sultana.
(d) Noorah planned to kidnap Maha to help her escape Saudi Arabia.

6. What is the Kaaba? .
(a) The Muslim holy book.
(b) The name given to the holy pilgrimage Muslim's make to Makkah.
(c) The Muslim holy season during which they do not eat until after sundown.
(d) A holy shrine in the central courtyard of Makkah.

7. When her father revealed a copy of Princess to the family, in which language was his copy written?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) Arabic.
(d) English.

8. How did Sultana react when her father and brother began to read mockingly from her book?
(a) She was humiliated.
(b) Her fear turned to anger.
(c) She laughed out loud in relief.
(d) She was too frightened to respond.

9. A year after meeting Yousif after the pilgrimage, what did the family learn had happened to him?
(a) He started a freedom movement in the Middle East to help women gain equality and was exiled from Saudi Arabia.
(b) He was stoned to death for killing his infant daughter.
(c) He was arrested for being the leader of a terrorist organization.
(d) He wed two teenage virgins and divorced them both after a year.

10. In what ways did Sultana hold the king responsible for the plight of the country's forgotten citizens?
(a) He did not exercise the power he had.
(b) He made excuses for being a poor leader and decision maker.
(c) He made daily rulings that kept the people supressed.
(d) She did not hold him responsible.

11. Why did Sultana fear that Amani would turn out like her cousin Lawand?
(a) Amani spent too much time with Lawand and hung on her every word.
(b) Lawand became a religious extremist and harrassed her family.
(c) Amani was addicted to cocaine like Lawand was.
(d) Amani looked exactl;y like Lawand.

12. In the sad story of Sultana's cousin, what memorable act did the woman attempt?
(a) She kidnapped her driver at gunpoint and made him drive her to the airport.
(b) She faked her death and tried to escape the country dressed as a man.
(c) She contacted the authorities in the United States and begged them to rescue her.
(d) She told her husband she was going shopping and actually fled the country with only a passport and a few posessions.

13. When Maha confirmed her family's suspicions about the story she wrote, what aspect of Saudi social life was revealed?
(a) Young wives of elderly men often seek out romantic relationships with servants.
(b) Strict segregation often leads to secret homosexuality.
(c) With more royal females than males, Saudi princesses often fall in love with men that are considered below their social class.
(d) Many Saudi men find trivial reasons to have unwanted wives murdered, legally.

14. What group of people in Saudi Arabia did Sultana consider forgotten?
(a) The women.
(b) The handicapped.
(c) The poor.
(d) The children.

15. During the purification process before the holy pilgrimage, what was the policy on cutting hair?
(a) Men were not permitted to cut their hair, but women and children were allowed.
(b) The faithful would cut off a lock of their own hair as part of a ritual.
(c) It was not allowed.
(d) Men's head must be shaved and women must have a haircut.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the family's holy pilgrimage, what notable event took place at the Plain of Mina?

2. What type of outburst did Sultana have before the family left on the pilgrimage?

3. What is the name of the time of purity that Sultana's Muslim family observed before making the holy pilgrimage?

4. What became of Sultana's cousin at the end of her sad story?

5. Overall, what did Sultana think of Yousif, Kareem's childhood friend?

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