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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 trhough 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Marrakech also known as?
(a) Red-walled city.
(b) The Land of giants.
(c) Land of legends.
(d) City of heat.

2. What did Mernissi have trouble pronouncing when she was young?
(a) Words with "th" in them.
(b) Rolling her Rs.
(c) "P" words.
(d) "B" words.

3. What did Mernissi say was the cure for hem?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Taking medicine.
(c) Eating.
(d) Beauty and quiet.

4. In "The French Harem," what does Mernissi say she had to have permission to do?
(a) Visit Habiba.
(b) Be quiet and choose her words carefully.
(c) Go through the front gate.
(d) Tell stories.

5. What was the "djellaba" that Mernissi's mother wanted to wear?
(a) Dress styled on western fashions.
(b) Men's coat that allowed for freedom of walking.
(c) Pants that the nationalists' wives wore.
(d) Caftan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Aunt Habiba have to live in Mernissi's father's household?

2. What does Zin mean?

3. What book did Mernissi's mother request that her husband read to her?

4. What did Aunt Habiba encourage the women to believe in while she was telling stories?

5. What did Yasmina say was the worst thing for a woman to be cut off from?

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