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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Maha?
(a) Sultana's middle child.
(b) Sultana's sister and closest friend.
(c) The first wife of King Fahd.
(d) Ali's wife, who he eventually divorced three times.

2. How did Reema come to be married to Aisha's depraved father?
(a) She was a gift to Aisha's father because of a business deal.
(b) She was used by her father to pay a debt to Aisha's father.
(c) Her family was poor and was forced to sell her for money to feed his family.
(d) She was kidnapped at knifepoint by hired thieves.

3. What protection did the title of "princess" afford Sultana when it came to exposing her identity?
(a) She was safe from any harm or punishment because she was a part of the royal family.
(b) There were hundreds of princesses like her in the royal family.
(c) Anything she did wrong would be blamed on her husband.
(d) Princesses could get away with things that ordinary people could not.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sultana's family decide to do about the situation with Sultana and her book?

2. What injustice to women did the depraved father of Maha's friend, Aisha, commit?

3. In the Prologue, why does Sultana study the photo of King Fahd?

4. At age 11, why did Maha curse and swear at her grandfather?

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

(see the answer key)

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