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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 kind of food did Aunt Habiba cure in the sun?
(a) Peaches.
(b) Olives.
(c) Figs.
(d) Grapes.

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

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

4. Which woman of the harem was occasionally affected by hem?
(a) Mernissi's grandmother.
(b) Chama.
(c) Malika.
(d) Mernissi's mother.

5. Who landed at Casablanca Airport for the first time in November, 1942?
(a) Irish immigrants.
(b) Swedish missionaries.
(c) Americans soldiers.
(d) English botanists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Mernissi borrow charm books from?

2. What was the one thing that Mernissi's mother and Lalla Radia, Samir's mother, agreed upon?

3. Who owed a large sum of money to Sis Sussi?

4. Who was Sis Sussi?

5. What place did Mina come from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Mernissi and Samir's friendship begin to deteriorate as they grew older?

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

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

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

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

10. What did the big bird design Aunt Habiba was stitching symbolize to her?

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