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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 through 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mernissi's grandmother expect the children in the city harem to do when they visited her?
(a) Make sure their feet were not wet.
(b) Play loud games.
(c) Cook.
(d) Read stories to her.

2. How did Mernissi get hurt the first time she tried to escape the harem?
(a) Scraped her knees.
(b) Cut her hand.
(c) Sprained her ankle.
(d) Broke her arm.

3. Who landed at Casablanca Airport for the first time in November, 1942?
(a) English botanists.
(b) Swedish missionaries.
(c) Irish immigrants.
(d) Americans soldiers.

4. In what city was Mernissi born?
(a) Fez.
(b) Instanbul.
(c) Rome.
(d) Casablanca.

5. What was the one thing that Mernissi's mother and Lalla Radia, Samir's mother, agreed upon?
(a) Their love of singing.
(b) Their belief in harems.
(c) Their friendship with their mother-in-law.
(d) Their hatred of co-wives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that Mernissi's mother was a bad influence on Chama?

2. What was shape of the house on Grandfather Tazi's farm where the harem lived?

3. What was the name of the French city described in "The French Harem"?

4. What foreign language could Tamou speak fluently?

5. What kind of jewelry did Yasmina wear that Mernissi liked to play with?

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