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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What cloth was the small veil, or litham, made of that the nationalists' wives wore?
(a) Sheer silk chiffon.
(b) Polyester.
(c) Wool.
(d) Heavy cotton.

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

3. What did Mernissi travel in when she went on a picnic ten kilometers from her home?
(a) Wagon.
(b) Truck.
(c) Train.
(d) Car.

4. What did Mernissi's mother pack for the picnic that her father said to forget about bringing?
(a) Books.
(b) Food.
(c) Swings.
(d) Wine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Zin?

2. What did Mernissi fear about going down the dark stairs at night in her childhood home?

3. What foreign language could Tamou speak fluently?

4. What kind of transportation did Mernissi's father and uncle use when she was a young child?

5. What did Yasmina want Mernissa to concentrate on instead of rules and barriers in "The Harem Within"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the kind of clothing Mernissi was dressed in as a child.

2. Why did Mernissi consider the French soldiers to be fearful of the citizens of Medina?

3. Why did Yasmina and the other co-wives admire Tamou?

4. How does Mernissi describe the French soldiers who patrolled the streets outside her house?

5. Why did Lalla Radia believe that harems were wonderful?

6. What was life like for Mernissi in the upstairs quarters of her home?

7. How did the harem in the city differ from the one at Mernissi's grandfather's farm?

8. Did Yasmina feel close to her co-wives?

9. What did Fatima Mernissi do as a child while she waited for her mother to wake up each morning?

10. What was Mernissi's mother's reaction when Mernissi wore her head scarf?

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