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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nura explained that in their culture girls often had what removed when they reached maturity?
(a) Their eyebrows.
(b) Their body hair.
(c) Parts of their genitals.
(d) All jewelry.

2. What happened to these women?
(a) They were abused.
(b) They were teased.
(c) They were ignored.
(d) They were deported.

3. Sultana took her passport and a letter allowing her to travel that she forged and flew to Dubai. Why did she fly here?
(a) This is where the children were attending a camp.
(b) In Dubai she was safe from her husband's control.
(c) Dubai was an inexepensive place to live.
(d) Her family lived in Dubai.

4. Which of these describes the wedding ceremony?
(a) It was very unusual.
(b) It was lavish and expensive.
(c) It was simple and exciting.
(d) It was simple and boring.

5. Why did Sultana seek revenge on her brother?
(a) She wanted to protect women from him.
(b) She was very mean-spirited.
(c) For all the bad blood between them over the years.
(d) She hated men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Huda claimed that what would happen to Sara?

2. Then they returned to Paris where Sultana did what?

3. Why did they live here?

4. In 1975, Sultana was vacationing where?

5. What did Sultana tell Ali he could never know for sure?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the country react to the king's death?

2. What led Sultana to want to divorce Kareem?

3. How did Father react to Sultana's attempt to sabotage her marriage?

4. How did Sultana and Sara learn about their futures? What did they learn?

5. What happened when Hussein invaded Kuwait in late 1990?

6. What story did Sultana learn while in the hospital?

7. What happened after Sultana suffers a bout of breast cancer?

8. How did the king die?

9. How did Kareem's mother and Sultana get into a fight?

10. How did Sultana feel in the "Epilogue?" Why did she feel this way?

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