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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 5, "Secret Rendezvous, Sex, and the Scent of Sukumawiki" details Ayaan's years growing up where?
(a) Sudan.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Kenya.

2. What did Ayaan's mother force her to tell her father the truth about in Chapter 9, "Abeh"?
(a) Her childhood.
(b) Her first marriage.
(c) Her second marraige.
(d) Her health.

3. In Chapter 8, "Refugees," Ayaan accompanies her cousin to the border to bring back his family and returns from a 3 week journey with over how many people?
(a) 14.
(b) 35.
(c) 20.
(d) 9.

4. 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) Ethiopia.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Canada.

5. 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) Penal code chapters.
(c) The number of the law.
(d) Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Hirsi Magan Isse born?

2. Who encourages Ayaan's secret wedding to her cousin in Chapter 7, "Disillusion and Deceit"?

3. When did the Somali Civil War begin?

4. When did Ayaan's parents marry?

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

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