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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) Five meters higher than the one below it.
(b) Six meters.
(c) Ten meters.
(d) Two meters.

2. What color dress did Mernissi wear when she sang nationalist songs for her grandmother?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

3. What story did Mernissi like to hear Mina tell repeatedly?
(a) Learning how to sail.
(b) Swimming across a river.
(c) Meeting a King.
(d) How she got out of a well.

4. Who did Mernissi's mother ask to represent her at the meeting about Mernissi's education?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her uncle.

5. Who did Mernissi go to for comfort at the end of the book after she realized that she and Samir would no longer be together as playmates?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Mina.
(c) Aunt Habiba.
(d) Chama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the well-known and effective djinni exorcist in the Fez region who is described in "Mina, the Rootless"?

2. What did Mernissi choose over playing games with Samir in "Skin Politics"?

3. Whose words are the last to be spoken in the book?

4. Who did Mernissi borrow charm books from?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mernissi dislike the third chamber of the hamman?

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

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

4. How did Mernissi's mother tame her daughter's unruly hair?

5. Why did the women of the harem attend Sidi Belal's possession dance in secret?

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

7. Who was Princess Burdur?

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

9. What did Mernissi like about the way Mina danced?

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

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