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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 did the teacher Lalla Tam say about having debts?
(a) Debts could be left to themselves.
(b) A good Muslim always paid her debts.
(c) Let others repay your debts.
(d) Debts were a nuisance.

2. What terrible noise did Mernissi hear when she went to the forbidden terrace?
(a) Blood rushing through her veins.
(b) Airplane.
(c) Thunder.
(d) Car crash.

3. What did Aunt Habiba use to get to the forbidden terrace?
(a) Laundry bucket.
(b) Laundry poles.
(c) Rope.
(d) Stairs.

4. Who came to the terrace to look at the Bennis girls?
(a) Teachers looking for artist models.
(b) Grandmothers of young men.
(c) The young men of the house.
(d) Young girls wanting to learn to dance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who embroidered a big green bird with golden wings?

2. When Mernissi went home from school to have lunch, what animal did she like to hug in the street?

3. Whose room was the forbidden terrace above?

4. Who was Mina?

5. Why did Mernissi's father run away from her mother in fear in the final chapter of the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Aunt Habiba visit the forbidden terrace?

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

8. Describe Mina's physical appearance.

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

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

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