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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the SSDF stand for?
(a) The Student's Salvation Democratic Front.
(b) The Somali Salvation Democratic Front.
(c) The Sudanese Salvation Demographic Front.
(d) The Somali Sudanese Democratic Front.

2. What caused Ayaan's mother to become even more hostile toward others in Chapter Four, "Weeping Orphans and Widowed Wives"?
(a) She had an affair.
(b) She had an abortion.
(c) She got divorced.
(d) She lost a child in stillbirth.

3. After her first husband died, Ayaan's mother requested and received a divorce then moved where?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Mogadishu.
(c) Jeddah.
(d) Mecca.

4. In Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace," Ayaan compares her parents, considering her father more gentle and believing in the spirit of the laws while her mother was stricter and teaching what?
(a) The letter of the law.
(b) The number of the law.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Penal code chapters.

5. Hirsi Magan Isse was a part of Somalia's political elite and a leader in what earliest and most influential factions in the Somali Civil War?
(a) The Justice Party of Somalia.
(b) The Somali Freedom Movement.
(c) The Democratic Allegiance of Somalia.
(d) The Somali Salvation Democratic Front.

Short Answer Questions

1. What film did Theo van Gogh produce along with Ayaan Hirsi Ali?

2. In Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace," Ayaan's father had rushed off to join a coup against what?

3. What political party did Ayaan Hirsi Ali represent in the Dutch House of Representatives?

4. In Chapter Two, "Under the Talal Tree," the story focuses on Ayaan's early childhood memories growing up where with her mother, grandmother, brother, and sister?

5. What is the name of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's father?

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