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

2. How high was the forbidden terrace?
(a) Ten meters.
(b) Five meters higher than the one below it.
(c) Two meters.
(d) Six meters.

3. Who owed a large sum of money to Sis Sussi?
(a) Chama.
(b) Malika.
(c) Mernissi.
(d) Samir.

4. What did Mernissi perform during Chama's play productions?
(a) Acrobatic leaps.
(b) Cello.
(c) Opera.
(d) Lead actor.

5. What reason does Mernissi give for why fresh olives cannot be eaten?
(a) They need to ripen.
(b) They are too hard.
(c) They need to be hardened.
(d) They are too bitter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of oil does Mernissi's mother put in Mernissi's hair to tame her unruly locks?

2. What ailment does the Moroccan word "hem" refer to?

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

4. Why did Mina like to go to the forbidden terrace?

5. Why did Mernissi and her cousins leave money with Ahmed each week?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Mina's physical appearance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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