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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Mernissi born?

2. What color uniforms did the French soldiers wear when Mernissi was young?

3. What day did Mernissi and her cousin visit Aunt Habiba?

4. In what year did Tamou arrive at Grandfather Tazi's farm?

5. Who was Zin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Mernissi's mother's reaction when Mernissi wore her head scarf?

2. What did Fatima Mernissi do as a child while she waited for her mother to wake up each morning?

3. Why did Mernissi consider the French soldiers to be fearful of the citizens of Medina?

4. Describe Zin's physical appearance.

5. What worried Samir and Mernissi about Hitler?

6. Why did Lalla Radia believe that harems were wonderful?

7. How does Mernissi describe the French soldiers who patrolled the streets outside her house?

8. Describe Aunt Habiba's room.

9. What did Mernissi's mother say to her daughter about rebelling against her?

10. How did Grandfather Tazi try and persuade Yasmina to stop calling her duck Thor after his first wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role did Tamou play in Grandfather's Tazi's harem? In what ways did she live more freely as a woman? How did she encourage other women to do the same?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the progress in women's rights that Mernissi witnessed during her childhood. Why did Chama think that her generation of women were being sacrificed? What change regarding dress did Mernissi's mother put into effect that changed her life for the better?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways did the natural world play an essential role in the lives of women in this memoir? How did Mernissi respond to living on the farm as opposed to the city house? What did Yasmina tell her about the natural world and women?

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