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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. Who embroidered a big green bird with golden wings?
(a) Aunt Habiba.
(b) Malika.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Chama.

2. What did Mernissi perform during Chama's play productions?
(a) Cello.
(b) Opera.
(c) Lead actor.
(d) Acrobatic leaps.

3. What did Mernissi say were the two most pleasurable aspects of harem life that she wanted to take with her when she was an adult?
(a) Having clear frontiers in her life.
(b) Having relatives live with her.
(c) Eating together.
(d) Hamman and the terrace.

4. Why did Mernissi and her cousins leave money with Ahmed each week?
(a) To buy books and supplies.
(b) To buy Ice cream.
(c) To pay for chick peas.
(d) So they would have taxi fare when they needed it.

5. 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) Read stories to her.
(c) Cook.
(d) Play loud games.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Asmahan?

2. Who did Mernissi go to for comfort at the end of the book after she realized that she and Samir would no longer be together as playmates?

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

4. What was the one thing that Mernissi's mother and Lalla Radia, Samir's mother, agreed upon?

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

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