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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. What clan leader does Ayaan go to in order to gain permission to return to Somalia in Chapter 6, "Doubt and Defiance"?
(a) Farah Goure.
(b) Osman Moussa.
(c) Mohammed Bouyeri.
(d) Theo van Gogh.

2. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Simile.

3. When she was eight, Hirsi Ali's family left Somalia for what country?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Russia.
(d) Ethiopia.

4. What is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Abatement.
(d) Anarchy.

5. In Chapter 6, "Doubt and Defiance" Ayaan begins wearing what?
(a) A wig.
(b) A veil.
(c) Pants.
(d) Shorts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Ayaan's family rebels against all of the Islamic rules in Chapter 6, "Doubt and Defiance"?

2. Where did Hirsi Magan Isse earn a degree in anthropology?

3. In Chapter 11, "A Trial by the Elders," Ayaan began receiving her refugee allowances, and took language classes to start learning what language?

4. Ayaan shared the secret of her marriage to a cousin with only whom in Chapter 7, "Disillusion and Deceit"?

5. What word refers to both the head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women and modest Muslim styles of dress in general?

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