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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. How high was the forbidden terrace?
(a) Two meters.
(b) Six meters.
(c) Five meters higher than the one below it.
(d) Ten meters.

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

3. Who embroidered a big green bird with golden wings?
(a) Malika.
(b) Chama.
(c) Aunt Habiba.
(d) Fatima.

4. Which young woman was the best at giving love glances?
(a) Fatima.
(b) Chama.
(c) Mina.
(d) Malika.

5. What did Mernissi choose over playing games with Samir in "Skin Politics"?
(a) Being more serious about her studies.
(b) Beauty treatments.
(c) Spending time with Chama.
(d) Another playmate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color dress did Mernissi wear when she sang nationalist songs for her grandmother?

2. What did Mernissi want to influence with her magic spells?

3. Who said that Mernissi's mother was a bad influence on Chama?

4. What activity was considered illegal that the women sometimes did on the terrace?

5. Who was Samir's sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mernissi like about the nationalist school she was allowed to attend?

2. What did the grownups think that children should know about violence?

3. Why did Aunt Habiba visit the forbidden terrace?

4. What was Mernissi's reaction when she went up to the forbidden terrace?

5. Why was Samir thrown out of the women's hamman?

6. Why did Mernissi become involved with shour, or magic practices?

7. How did Lalla Mani prepare her face mask made of dates?

8. How did Mina help Mernissi get out of the olive jar when she was stuck?

9. Who was Princess Burdur?

10. What does Mernissi say were the two things a woman had to do to capture a man's love?

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