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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mernissi describe "Hanan"?
(a) Educational program.
(b) Political uprising.
(c) Moroccan emotional quality.
(d) Spicy food.

2. What did Yasmina say was the worst thing for a woman to be cut off from?
(a) Nature.
(b) Social time with the other wives.
(c) Learning to read.
(d) Housework.

3. Who played the part of the Prince Hassan in the play about Asmahan?
(a) Fatima.
(b) Zin.
(c) Samir.
(d) Chama.

4. What did Mernissi have to do every night as a child at sundown when the lights were turned on?
(a) Make sure the lights were on in the stairwells.
(b) Kiss the grownups hands and say good evening.
(c) Serve tea.
(d) Light candles.

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

6. 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) Her husband was a relative.
(c) She was widowed.
(d) She was divorced.

7. How does Mernissi describe the shape of her face as a young child?
(a) Round like a moon.
(b) Thin and angular.
(c) Heart-shaped.
(d) High cheekbones and a pointed chin.

8. What was Lalla Thor's personality like?
(a) Tender.
(b) Funny and full of pranks.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Serious, proper, and correct.

9. Why did Mernissi's father make the harem's youth stay with him on his brother's farm during the summer holidays?
(a) To get together for dances.
(b) To study and read uninterrupted.
(c) To relax and have fun.
(d) So they would not lose interest in the land.

10. What tree was Yaya happy to receive from the women of the harem?
(a) Coconut.
(b) Olive.
(c) Pear.
(d) Banana.

11. Who helped Mernissi get permission to go to the movies as a child?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Samir.
(c) Chama.
(d) Her father.

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

13. What kind of jewelry did Yasmina wear that Mernissi liked to play with?
(a) Strands of pink pearls.
(b) Diamond bracelet.
(c) Opal ring.
(d) Sapphire necklace.

14. What color uniforms did the French soldiers wear when Mernissi was young?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Gray.
(d) Green.

15. What does Zin mean?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Desire.
(c) Scholarship.
(d) Swiftness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ahmed?

2. Who was Samir?

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

4. What language did Zin master?

5. In "The French Harem," what does Mernissi say she had to have permission to do?

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