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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yaya give the wives of the harem in exchange for them doing her housework?
(a) Money.
(b) A weekly story.
(c) Bread.
(d) Fruit.

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

3. Who was Scheherazade?
(a) Slave.
(b) Storyteller.
(c) Warrior.
(d) Gardner.

4. In what year did Tamou arrive at Grandfather Tazi's farm?
(a) 1926.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1980.

5. What rank did Lalla Thor have on Grandfather Tazi's farm?
(a) First wife.
(b) Second wife.
(c) Fifth wife.
(d) Eighth wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mernissi have to do every night as a child at sundown when the lights were turned on?

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

3. What was unusual about the bracelets Tamou wore the day she arrived at the farm?

4. What kind of transportation did Mernissi's father and uncle use when she was a young child?

5. What did Yasmina like to do that caused Grandfather Tazi to think she was eccentric?

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