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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 34-41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Amina do after hearing about the two mediators who work on her behalf to get her back home?
(a) Relaxes.
(b) Gets scared.
(c) Cries.
(d) Tenses up.

2. What is the mock profession Ahmad's friends put on before leaving him in Chapter 16?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A birthday party.
(c) A prayer service.
(d) A funeral.

3. What is the name of the neighbor girl who Fahmy watches do chores from the roof?
(a) Zaynab.
(b) Maryam.
(c) Khadija.
(d) Zanuba.

4. What is the name of the gathering that all of Ahmad's family has at sunset except for him?
(a) Secret hour.
(b) Tea queue.
(c) Coffee hour.
(d) Family time.

5. Who is described as the more beautiful of Amina's daughters?
(a) Aisha.
(b) Khadija.
(c) Jalilia.
(d) Zanuba.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Ahmad play expertly?

2. What does Kamal envy about Yasin at the end of Chapter 9?

3. What does Yasin tell his mother is the only way he will love her again when he visits her for the first time in the book?

4. Who are quarreling when Amina tells them she is leaving the house?

5. What is on a provocative poster that Kamal looks at along with the shrine of al-Husayn?

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