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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of people in Saudi Arabia did Sultana consider forgotten?
(a) The handicapped.
(b) The poor.
(c) The women.
(d) The children.

2. At age 10, to what did Maha set on fire?
(a) Her brother's clothing.
(b) The family car.
(c) The Koran.
(d) A beloved pet.

3. What did Maha's shocking statement at the end of Chapter 2 convince her parents to do?
(a) Give her more freedoms because she showed great maturity.
(b) Take her to a psychiatrist.
(c) Send her to a boarding school.
(d) Lock her in her room in complete seclusion.

4. After the decision regarding Aisha, what did Maha say that shocked her parents?
(a) That she was a lesbian.
(b) That she would kill herself.
(c) That there was no God.
(d) That she was finally at peace with her life.

5. What injustice to women did the depraved father of Maha's friend, Aisha, commit?
(a) He married several women at once and then stoned to death the ones who did not conceive within a year.
(b) He married girls as young as eleven as temporary brides and then unmarried them.
(c) He divorced his wives when they stopped being able to have children.
(d) He sent his wives to live in seclusion in the women's room when he was bored of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of Maha's cursing and swearing at her grandfather?

2. What was Sultana's biggest worry with the publication of her first book?

3. How was the marriage of Kareem and Sultana affected by Sultana's book?

4. How did Sultana react when her father and brother began to read mockingly from her book?

5. When Sultana found unexpected, forbidden items among Maha's possessions, who did Sultana suspect had given them to her?

(see the answer key)

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