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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following things are women not doing inside the mosque in Chapter 27?
(a) Praying.
(b) Lighting candles.
(c) Touching the walls.
(d) Looking at the tombs.

2. What is the name of the matchmaker that visits Ahmad's store in Chapter 14?
(a) Umm Ali.
(b) Haniya.
(c) Umm Maryam.
(d) Umm Hanafi.

3. Who is left with the sorrow of a lost opportunity when Ahmad refues to let Aisha be married?
(a) Khadija.
(b) Amina.
(c) Yasin.
(d) Fahmy.

4. What about Amina's husband could not be questioned because he was male?
(a) His feelings.
(b) His work.
(c) His activities.
(d) His rules.

5. What does Amina feel transformed into when entering a mosque?
(a) Something sweeter.
(b) Heaven bound.
(c) A saint.
(d) Pure spirit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Amina discover she has broken?

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

4. For what reason must Aisha make her confession, according to Khadija in Chapter 22?

5. 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?

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