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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Siad Barre born?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1942.

2. In what year was Ayaan Hirsi Ali elected a member of the House of Representatives?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2003.

3. Where did Ayaan and her sister flee when Somalia fell further into civil war and fighting spread to Mogadishu in Chapter 7, "Disillusion and Deceit"?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Canada.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

4. Where did Hirsi Magan Isse earn a degree in anthropology?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Valley Secretarial College.
(d) Leiden University.

5. What is the name of Ayaan's grandmother whom she describes in Chapter One?
(a) Ijaabo.
(b) Ayeeyo.
(c) Haweya.
(d) Asha.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ripped up the marriage certificate to Ayaan's secret marriage to her cousin in Chapter 9, "Abeh"?

2. What refers to the countryside in Somalia, and is sometimes used as a descriptive word in the book to explain people who are backwards or not modern nor progressive?

3. What is a nonprofit organization for the defense of Muslim women's rights?

4. Ayaan was determined to escape and so she went to visit what person whom she helped rescue and bring into Kenya from the border of Somalia in Chapter 10, "Running Away"?

5. Ayaan experiences her first kiss in Chapter 6, "Doubt and Defiance," but knows it is doomed, as he is from where?

(see the answer key)

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