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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who landed at Casablanca Airport for the first time in November, 1942?
(a) English botanists.
(b) Swedish missionaries.
(c) Irish immigrants.
(d) Americans soldiers.

2. What was the official means of access to the forbidden terrace?
(a) Window.
(b) Ladder.
(c) Elevator.
(d) Stairs.

3. What does the Moroccan word "tanaqod" mean?
(a) Panic.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) Contradiction.
(d) Eagerness.

4. What did the children like to play hide-and-go-seek in?
(a) The courtyard.
(b) Aunt Habiba's room.
(c) Mernissi's grandmother's salon.
(d) Olive jars.

5. How long did it take for Aunt Habiba to embroider her black velvet caftan?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) One day.

6. What did the teacher Lalla Tam say about having debts?
(a) Debts were a nuisance.
(b) A good Muslim always paid her debts.
(c) Debts could be left to themselves.
(d) Let others repay your debts.

7. What planet had to appear in the sky on a Friday evening in order to cast a love spell?
(a) Venus.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Mars.
(d) Saturn.

8. What does Mernissi say was the turning point in her relationship with her mother?
(a) When she learned about menstruation.
(b) When she left the harem for good.
(c) When she was twenty-one.
(d) When she turned eighteen.

9. Whose words are the last to be spoken in the book?
(a) Mina's.
(b) Samir's.
(c) Chama's.
(d) Mernissi's.

10. What kind of meeting did Mernissi's father call for when he had to decide about Mernissi's education?
(a) Meeting with the school board.
(b) Meeting with religious officials.
(c) Meeting with the principal.
(d) Family council meeting.

11. What did Aunt Habiba use to get to the forbidden terrace?
(a) Laundry poles.
(b) Rope.
(c) Laundry bucket.
(d) Stairs.

12. What was the name of the well-known and effective djinni exorcist in the Fez region who is described in "Mina, the Rootless"?
(a) Lalla Dris
(b) Sidi Belal.
(c) Mina.
(d) Rahma.

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

14. What was the tradition that Mernissi's mother followed after her beauty treatments were finished?
(a) She would walk around the courtyard singing.
(b) She would carefully put away all her beauty cosmetics.
(c) She would kiss her mother-in-law's hand.
(d) She would spend time with her children.

15. Which woman of the harem was occasionally affected by hem?
(a) Mernissi's grandmother.
(b) Mernissi's mother.
(c) Malika.
(d) Chama.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mernissi wanted information about how to do the love glance from Malika, what did Malika want for payment?

2. What kind of classes did Mernissi's mother want to take at the neighborhood school?

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

4. What could Stela Bennis never remember?

5. 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?

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