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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. In what city was Mernissi born?
(a) Rome.
(b) Fez.
(c) Instanbul.
(d) Casablanca.
2. What did Asmahan always wear around her neck?
(a) Pearl necklace.
(b) Scarf.
(c) Black fedora.
(d) Diamond necklace.
3. What color uniforms did the French soldiers wear when Mernissi was young?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Gray.
(d) Blue.
4. What did Grandfather Tazi have built for Tamou after she became one of his wives?
(a) Stable for her horse.
(b) Large statute depicting her family.
(c) Swing.
(d) Pavillion on top of Yasmina's house.
5. What was the "djellaba" that Mernissi's mother wanted to wear?
(a) Pants that the nationalists' wives wore.
(b) Dress styled on western fashions.
(c) Men's coat that allowed for freedom of walking.
(d) Caftan.
Short Answer Questions
1. What floor of Mernissi's family's house did Aunt Habiba live on?
2. What book did Mernissi's mother request that her husband read to her?
3. What did Mernissi and her cousin sleep on when they stayed overnight with Aunt Habiba?
4. Why did Mernissi's father make the harem's youth stay with him on his brother's farm during the summer holidays?
5. What did Mernissi admire about her Aunt Habiba?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the women escape from the house by using the terrace route?
2. What happened when Chama tried to follow her male cousins to the movies?
3. What was Mernissi's mother's reaction when Mernissi wore her head scarf?
4. Describe the kind of clothing Mernissi was dressed in as a child.
5. Why did moonlight picnics make Mernissi's mother happy?
6. Why did Mernissi admire Asmahan?
7. What did Fatima Mernissi do as a child while she waited for her mother to wake up each morning?
8. What worried Samir and Mernissi about Hitler?
9. Why did Mernissi consider the French soldiers to be fearful of the citizens of Medina?
10. Why does Mernissi call Aunt Habiba the "high priestess of imagination"?
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