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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 Mernissi say she wanted to learn from Aunt Habiba?
(a) How to talk in the night.
(b) How to make dresses.
(c) How to embroider.
(d) How to buy the best cuts of meat in the market.

2. What was the name of the French city described in "The French Harem"?
(a) New France.
(b) Medina.
(c) Petite Paris.
(d) Ville Nouvelle.

3. What day did Mernissi and her cousin visit Aunt Habiba?
(a) Saturdays.
(b) Wednesdays.
(c) Mondays.
(d) Fridays.

4. Why did Aunt Habiba have to live in Mernissi's father's household?
(a) She and her husband had lost her home during the war.
(b) She was widowed.
(c) She was divorced.
(d) Her husband was a relative.

5. What foreign language could Tamou speak fluently?
(a) Italian.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Greek.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of competitions did Tamou organize?

2. How does Mernissi describe the harem she lived in in Fez?

3. Who told Mernissi that she should never accept inequality because it was not logical?

4. What did Mernissi's grandmother expect the children in the city harem to do when they visited her?

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

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