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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Yasin not do to forget his mother in Chapter 13?
(a) Gets drunk.
(b) Curses his fate.
(c) Worries about his inheritance.
(d) Pines for Maryam.

2. What is the name of the widowed woman that the matchmaker says wants to become Ahmad's second wife?
(a) Haniya.
(b) Nafusa.
(c) Zaynab.
(d) Zanuba.

3. Who suggests to Amina that Aisha's engagement be allowed until Khadija is married first?
(a) Yasin.
(b) Fahmy.
(c) Kamal.
(d) Jamil.

4. How does Amina's mother describe her grandfather and father to suggest why evil cannot befall her?
(a) Good men.
(b) Sinners.
(c) Hateful.
(d) Saintly.

5. What does Amina ask God to forgive her husband for when she helps wash him after he gets home?
(a) His meanness.
(b) His womanizing.
(c) His drinking.
(d) His bad temper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the haughty and flirtatious woman who comes to Ahmad's store after the matchmaker?

2. What is the name of Ahmad's assistant?

3. What kind of eyes does Amina say Ahmad had that made her confess how she really was injured?

4. What does Yasin's mother do joyfully when he visits her for the first time in the book?

5. Where does pain course through Amina after she is injured leaving a mosque?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of Yasin's complaints about his mother when he visits Ahmad in Chapter 17?

2. What does Amina help her husband with when he comes home drunk at midnight every night?

3. How are the three visitors that come to Ahmad's home described?

4. How is Kamal's visit to Maryam in Chapter 21 described?

5. How are Ahmad's actions at a party where he hires Zubayda to sing described?

6. How is Yasin's meeting with his mother described in Chapter 18?

7. How does Ahmad react to Fahmy's request to marry Maryam?

8. How does the family react when Fahmy asks Amina to arrange his marriage to Maryam?

9. How does Yasin prowl for women in Chapter 12?

10. How is Yasin and Amina's visit to the al-Husayn shrine described?

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