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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 is ghassoul?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Clay shampoo and lotion.
(c) Shampoo sold at the market.
(d) Mixture of henna and oil.
2. What did Mernissi choose over playing games with Samir in "Skin Politics"?
(a) Beauty treatments.
(b) Spending time with Chama.
(c) Another playmate.
(d) Being more serious about her studies.
3. What color dress did Mernissi wear when she sang nationalist songs for her grandmother?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.
4. What could Stela Bennis never remember?
(a) Places.
(b) Birthdays.
(c) Names.
(d) Important historical dates.
5. What does the Moroccan word "tanaqod" mean?
(a) Eagerness.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) Contradiction.
(d) Panic.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which young woman was the best at giving love glances?
2. What did Aunt Habiba tell Samir and Mernissi was the greatest gift that Allah had given them?
3. What did Zin borrow from his father for his costumes for Chama's plays?
4. Who was Sis Sussi?
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 Chama get discouraged about her audience when she tried to put on plays?
2. What did Mernissi like about the way Mina danced?
3. What were love glances and how did Chama use them successfully?
4. Why did Aunt Habiba visit the forbidden terrace?
5. Why did the women of the harem attend Sidi Belal's possession dance in secret?
6. How did Lalla Mani prepare her face mask made of dates?
7. Why did the women of the harem believe that they had to look as ugly as possible during their beauty rituals?
8. How did Mina help Mernissi get out of the olive jar when she was stuck?
9. What does Mernissi say were the two things a woman had to do to capture a man's love?
10. Why did Mina feel optimistic about the future for women?
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