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

2. What smell did Mernissi's father hate when his wife did her beauty treatments?
(a) Melon.
(b) Henna.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Amber.

3. How many times did Mina dance during the year?
(a) Every week.
(b) Once.
(c) Whenever she felt like it.
(d) Twice a month.

4. Who guarded the official means of access to the forbidden terrace?
(a) Uncle Mernissi.
(b) Ahmed.
(c) Zin.
(d) Aunt Habiba.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book tells the story of Princess Budar?

2. Which woman of the harem was occasionally affected by hem?

3. What did Aunt Habiba use to get to the forbidden terrace?

4. What place did Mina come from?

5. What did Mernissi have to study in order to learn how to weave "terrace magic"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Mernissi's mother not allowed to go to literacy classes?

2. What was Aunt Habiba's rule for the children who attended Sidi Belal's dance?

3. What did Mernissi's mother do when her husband bought her expensive face products from France?

4. What was Mernissi's father's attitude about her mother's beauty rituals?

5. Why did the women of the harem believe that they had to look as ugly as possible during their beauty rituals?

6. Who was Princess Burdur?

7. Why did Mina feel optimistic about the future for women?

8. What did Mina tell Mernissi about the gap between men and women?

9. What were love glances and how did Chama use them successfully?

10. How did Mina survive being put down a well by her kidnappers as a young child?

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