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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Princesses could get away with things that ordinary people could not.
(c) There were hundreds of princesses like her in the royal family.
(d) She was safe from any harm or punishment because she was a part of the royal family.

4. Among the purification rituals before the holy pilgrimage, what was not allowed?
(a) Wearing of perfume, jewelry or makeup.
(b) Eating during the daytime.
(c) Travel outside the country.
(d) Work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While in London, how did Maha behave toward her family?

2. During the family's holy pilgrimage, what was the significance of visiting Mount Arafat?

3. After reading Maha's story, what realization was made by her family?

4. A year after meeting Yousif after the pilgrimage, what did the family learn had happened to him?

5. Despite the fallout from her first book, why did Sultana know in her heart that the book needed to be written?

(see the answer key)

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