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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. Who had trouble sitting through a dance ritual and was shown to the door?

2. What color did Mina like to wear?

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

4. What did Mernissi want to influence with her magic spells?

5. Why did Mernissi smuggle kohl from her mother's vanity table for Samir?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Aunt Habiba visit the forbidden terrace?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the appearance of American soldiers in Morocco for the first time impact the harem and their illicit activities on the terrace? Why was Mernissi's father against American products, and what did her mother have to say about women using these products?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Mernissi and Samir's relationship. What did they share when they were young and how did it change when Mernissi turned nine? What caused the rift between them?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Yasmina's view of harems. What did she dislike about being in a harem? How did she view her co-wives? How did she provide comfort to wives who felt lonely?

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