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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were Sultana's "forgotten" people disadvantaged in Saudi Arabia?
(a) They were not allowed to work.
(b) They were not permitted any form of education.
(c) They were treated as second-class citizens and had no rights.
(d) They were forbidden to leave the country.

2. How does Sultana remember King Fahd from his youth?
(a) As a kind and generous young man.
(b) As a shy and fearful boy.
(c) As a hateful and bullying child.
(d) As a handsome warrior.

3. Despite the fallout from her first book, why did Sultana know in her heart that the book needed to be written?
(a) The children of Saudi Arabia needed a voice, and Sultana was that voice.
(b) Because Saudi men needed to be called out for their injustices toward women.
(c) It brought world-wide attention to the corruption of the government.
(d) The book exposed the plight of the nation's poor, who suffer while so many are rich.

4. How did Maha react to the decision regarding her relationship with Aisha?
(a) She was irritated, but understanding.
(b) She was worried that it was a bad idea.
(c) She was furious.
(d) She was an excited as Aisha.

5. What injustice to women did the depraved father of Maha's friend, Aisha, commit?
(a) He married girls as young as eleven as temporary brides and then unmarried them.
(b) He divorced his wives when they stopped being able to have children.
(c) He married several women at once and then stoned to death the ones who did not conceive within a year.
(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 protection did the title of "princess" afford Sultana when it came to exposing her identity?

2. To whom did the item (or items) that Maha was taking to work with her belong?

3. Who was Reema, from Yemen?

4. What group of people in Saudi Arabia did Sultana consider forgotten?

5. What did Maha's shocking statement at the end of Chapter 2 convince her parents to do?

(see the answer key)

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