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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Sultana, and what was her place in the Saudi royal family?
(a) She was actually a British writer named Jean Sasson.
(b) She was the 4th wife of King Fahd.
(c) She was a royal princess and Sultana is not her real name.
(d) She was an American married to a Saudi prince.

2. When Sultana found unexpected, forbidden items among Maha's possessions, who did Sultana suspect had given them to her?
(a) Aisha.
(b) Noorah.
(c) Aisha's father.
(d) Ali.

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

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

5. In Chapter 1, why did Kareem come home in an angry rush and Sultana feared that he had learned of her book?
(a) He was angry because they have been summoned to Sultana's father's palace.
(b) He was upset and worried because he just lost his job.
(c) He was worried because he heard a rumor that they were about to be arrested.
(d) He was furious because he knows someone in the family has written an expose about the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Maha say was her reason for taking such an item (or items) with her to work?

2. How did Reema come to be married to Aisha's depraved father?

3. What unexpected, forbidden items did Sultana find among Maha's possessions when she was packing her things, at the end of Chapter 2?

4. Who is Maha?

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

(see the answer key)

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