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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 was Ahmed?
(a) Doorkeeper.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Vistor from foreign land.
(d) Mernissi's brother.

2. How many rows did the harem reserve for themselves at the movies?
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

3. What section of the harem did Mernissi's mother and Chama walk in to get to the movies?
(a) Rebel's.
(b) With the children.
(c) Men's.
(d) Elderly section.

4. What were the streets of Medina like when Mernissi was growing up?
(a) Large and straight.
(b) Narrow, dark, and serpentine.
(c) Well-lit.
(d) Tree-lined.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mernissi admire about Zin?

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

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

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

5. What instrument did Uncle Karim play?

(see the answer key)

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