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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 116-133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the grandfather splurge on?
(a) What his wife needed.
(b) What he needed for the house.
(c) What the narrator needed.
(d) What he needed for prayer.

2. How were Hosna and Wad buried?
(a) With a busy ceremony.
(b) Quickly and without a funeral.
(c) With a nice funeral.
(d) Slowly with lots of greetings.

3. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her siblings.
(c) Her friends.
(d) Her husbands.

4. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he lost his children.
(b) That he moved.
(c) That he drowned.
(d) That he lost his wife.

5. What does the narrator's sister think about Western women?
(a) That they are not as knowledgeable as their tribal women.
(b) That they are not as attractive as their tribal women.
(c) That they are not as healthy as their tribal women.
(d) That they are not as stupid as their tribal women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the narrator and his grandfather feel about seeing each other?

2. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?

3. Who did the narrator talk about the murders with, after visiting his sister?

4. When were rooms added to the grandfather's house?

5. With who did they banter back and forth about their sexual exploits at grandfather's house?

(see the answer key)

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