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

2. Who rescued Mernissi when she got stuck in the olive jars she had slid into?
(a) Chama.
(b) Malika.
(c) Samir.
(d) Mina.

3. Why did Mernissi smuggle kohl from her mother's vanity table for Samir?
(a) He wanted to give it to his cousin.
(b) So he could draw a mustache on his face.
(c) He like using it to draw pictures of cars.
(d) He wanted to use examine it under a microscope.

4. Whose words are the last to be spoken in the book?
(a) Samir's.
(b) Chama's.
(c) Mernissi's.
(d) Mina's.

5. What place did Mina come from?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Timbuktu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the children like to play hide-and-go-seek in?

2. What could Stela Bennis never remember?

3. What did Mernissi perform during Chama's play productions?

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

5. Who said that skin was political?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why did Chama get discouraged about her audience when she tried to put on plays?

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

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

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