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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shameful secret about her cousin, Majed, did Amani learn and share with Sultana?
(a) Majed raped a woman who was in a coma in the hospital.
(b) Majed was a homosexual.
(c) Majed poured scalding water down the throat of his infant daughter to kill her.
(d) Majed married two teenage virgins, used them for sex and divorced them one month later.

2. What did Sultana and Kareem discover that Maha was taking to work with her at the hospital?
(a) A pistol.
(b) Drugs.
(c) A Bible.
(d) Brass knuckles.

3. When her marriage to Aisha's father was over, what happened to Reema?
(a) She was married off as the second wife to a poor Yemeni tea boy.
(b) She was divorced and sent home to her family in shame.
(c) She was cast into the women's room to live in exile for the rest of her life.
(d) She was stoned to death in a private ceremony.

4. What did Maha say was her reason for taking such an item (or items) with her to work?
(a) It was the only free time she had away from her parents' watchful eyes.
(b) To seem cool to the other workers at the hospital.
(c) For protection from the police.
(d) As an escape from the hardships of her life.

5. Overall, what did Sultana think of Yousif, Kareem's childhood friend?
(a) He gave her hope that the men of Saudi Arabia could change.
(b) She had great sympathy for him and his mission in life.
(c) He represented the worst of the Muslim culture.
(d) He was arrogant and rude, but basically a good man like Kareem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Among the purification rituals before the holy pilgrimage, what was not allowed?

2. What is the name of the time of purity that Sultana's Muslim family observed before making the holy pilgrimage?

3. What Western documentary tells the sad story of Sultana's cousin?

4. At the end of the pilgrimage, for which of her children did Sultana worry the most?

5. In the sad story of Sultana's cousin, what memorable act did the woman attempt?

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