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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of oil does Mernissi's mother put in Mernissi's hair to tame her unruly locks?
(a) Olive.
(b) Safflower.
(c) Corn.
(d) Coconut.

2. What was the drink Zeri'a made from?
(a) Dates.
(b) Pineapples.
(c) Pomegranates.
(d) Melon seeds.

3. What kind of classes did Mernissi's mother want to take at the neighborhood school?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Science.
(d) Literature.

4. Why did the children get treated with indulgence by the women of the harem?
(a) Treating children well meant they would be rewarded by Allah.
(b) Because they knew that the children could tell the men what they were doing.
(c) They were so well behaved.
(d) They thought children should never be punished.

5. How did Mernissi say she felt about being transferred to another school?
(a) Worried.
(b) Scared.
(c) Intimidated.
(d) Elated.

6. What was Marrakech also known as?
(a) Red-walled city.
(b) Land of legends.
(c) City of heat.
(d) The Land of giants.

7. Who was Samir's sister?
(a) Chama.
(b) Mikala.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Radia.

8. What was the Egyptian feminist Huda Sha'raoui known for?
(a) Street marches.
(b) Fancy caftans.
(c) Political campaigns.
(d) Salon parties.

9. What did Mernissi have to study in order to learn how to weave "terrace magic"?
(a) Malika's shoulder movements.
(b) Chama's hand motions.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Love glances from boys across the terrace.

10. What place did Mina come from?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Timbuktu.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Lebanon.

11. What book tells the story of Princess Budar?
(a) A Thousand and One Nights.
(b) Tales of Arabian Knights.
(c) The Lives of Egyptian Feminists.
(d) Grimm's Fairy Tales.

12. What ailment does the Moroccan word "hem" refer to?
(a) Allergies.
(b) Mild depression.
(c) Bad cough.
(d) Dizziness.

13. In "Mina, the Rootless," who did Mernissi say she was having difficulties with during their conversations?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Samir.
(c) Aunt Habiba.
(d) Her father.

14. 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?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Chama.
(c) Aunt Habiba.
(d) Mina.

15. What did Aunt Habiba tell Samir and Mernissi was the greatest gift that Allah had given them?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Determination.
(c) Reason.
(d) Emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose words are the last to be spoken in the book?

2. What did Mernissi want her father to have made for her when she sang nationalist songs for her grandmother?

3. Who was Mina?

4. When Chama listened to feminist programs on Radio Cairo, what did she say about her generation of women?

5. What word was embroidered on Chama and Mernissi's mother's black velvet hats?

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