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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 through 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Fatima Mernissi?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Author.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Pediatrician.

2. What floor of Mernissi's family's house did Aunt Habiba live on?
(a) Basement.
(b) Second.
(c) First.
(d) Third.

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

4. What did Mernissi's mother dream about doing in "The French Harem"?
(a) Writing stories.
(b) Visiting her mother.
(c) Having picnics.
(d) Roaming freely in the streets.

5. Who was Krisha?
(a) Man of authority.
(b) Security guard.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Driver of the harem farm women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was Mernissi born?

2. What did Zin and Jawad wear when they went to the movies?

3. What does Zin mean?

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

5. What did Yaya give the wives of the harem in exchange for them doing her housework?

(see the answer key)

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