Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society Test | Final Test - Medium

Lila Abu-Lughod
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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society Test | Final Test - Medium

Lila Abu-Lughod
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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. When a girl of about seventeen died, who did her family blame?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) A man who frightened her by shooting a rifle in the air.
(d) A man who drove by too fast in a jeep.

2. Who was the person usually most responsible for preventing love matches?
(a) A girl's paternal first cousin.
(b) A boy's paternal uncle.
(c) A girl's father.
(d) A boy's father.

3. After the senior magnate questioned family members about the sudden death of an old woman, what causes were suggested for her death?
(a) Sadness because her daughter had died.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A stroke.
(d) A broken heart because her son died.

4. In what point of view do they write ghinnawas?
(a) 3rd person.
(b) 2nd person.
(c) 1st person omniscient.
(d) 1st person limited.

5. What were two women doing when Lila captured their conversation and songs on tape?
(a) Doing laundry.
(b) Visiting neighbors.
(c) Caring for children.
(d) Sewing a tent.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Lila's stay among the Awlad 'Ali, how many ghinnawas did she record?

2. With whom did men share poems?

3. When Rashid's second wife ran away, who does Rashid blame?

4. How many wives does Aziza's brother have?

5. In a love story told in Chapter 8, what happened to a woodcutter?

Short Essay Questions

1. In bereavement, how did the Awlad 'Ali express their sentiments?

2. Why are analogies drawn in poetry between the poet and young children?

3. Why wasn't the Haj allowed to marry a girl he loved when he was 17?

4. How is the threat of sexuality to the Bedouin system dealt with?

5. What other groups compose and recite ghinnawas?

6. What was Mabruka's response when she was accused of sorcery?

7. What are the costs of arranged marriages?

8. How do reactions to a husband's second marriage vary?

9. What tape that Lila recorded did most people want to hear again and again?

10. How was the youngest adult man in the group of agnatic kinsmen where Lila did her fieldwork killed?

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