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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Sultana view her son Abdullah's attitude toward women?
(a) He felt intimidated by women.
(b) He was supportive of women's rights.
(c) He had contempt for women.
(d) He seemed to display a little chauvinism.

2. When two men were trampled to death at Makkah, why did Sultana panic?
(a) She had a dream that someone she loved would soon die.
(b) She could not find her son.
(c) She feared that one of the men was Kareem,
(d) She last saw her nephew at the spot where the men were killed.

3. Why did Sultana fear that Amani would turn out like her cousin Lawand?
(a) Amani was addicted to cocaine like Lawand was.
(b) Amani spent too much time with Lawand and hung on her every word.
(c) Lawand became a religious extremist and harrassed her family.
(d) Amani looked exactl;y like Lawand.

4. What was Maha's relationship with Aisha?
(a) Maha helped Aisha escape from her abusive elderly husband.
(b) They were secret lovers.
(c) Aisha was the family's London housekeeper in whom Maha confided.
(d) Aisha was Maha's illegitimate child who was born in secret.

5. At age 11, why did Maha curse and swear at her grandfather?
(a) Her grandfather was an evil man that harmed women.
(b) She was jealous of the attention Abdullah received.
(c) Her grandfather beat her and humiliated her.
(d) She had always hated her grandfather.

6. 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) Send her to a boarding school.
(c) Lock her in her room in complete seclusion.
(d) Take her to a psychiatrist.

7. What happened when Sultana confronted Kareem about his attitude toward the pilgrimage?
(a) Kareem forbade her to ever go with him.
(b) They got into a shouting and shoving match.
(c) They decided that Sultana would go alone.
(d) She begged him to allow her to go with him that year and he agreed.

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

9. How did Sultana fare during the purification process before the holy pilgrimage?
(a) She struggled greatly.
(b) She knew she would fail, so she refused to begin the process.
(c) She suffered a nervous breakdown.
(d) She devoted herself to the idea and had only a little trouble.

10. When Kareem and Sultana met with Aisha's father, what did the families decide about Maha and Aisha?
(a) That Aisha should come and live with Maha's family where she would have a better life.
(b) That they should stop seeing each other.
(c) That Maha was a positive influence that Aisha really needed.
(d) That they should both go into therapy together.

11. Why did Sultana regret taking fourteen year old Amani on the holy pilgrimage at such an impressionable age?
(a) She announced that she no longer believed in God at all.
(b) She decided she was not meant to be a Muslim.
(c) She became a religious fanatic.
(d) She became paranoid that God did not love her.

12. What reason did Sultana give her children for the plight of women in Saudi Arabia?
(a) Islamic tradition alone.
(b) The commandments of the Koran.
(c) The weakness of women and their inability to demand equality.
(d) Instructions from the prophet long ago.

13. 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 upset and worried because he just lost his job.
(b) He was worried because he heard a rumor that they were about to be arrested.
(c) He was furious because he knows someone in the family has written an expose about the family.
(d) He was angry because they have been summoned to Sultana's father's palace.

14. After viewing the notable event that occurred at the Plain of Mina, what did Amani refrain from later that evening?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Eating meat.
(c) Wearing her veil.
(d) Speaking.

15. Who was Jean Sasson?
(a) Sultana's most trusted servant.
(b) An American wed to a Saudi prince.
(c) The author responsible for telling Sultana's story.
(d) Sultana's real identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the trip to London, what is revealed about Maha's relationship with her grandmother, Noorah?

2. According to Sultana, what were the main duties of King Fahd?

3. How were Sultana's "forgotten" people disadvantaged in Saudi Arabia?

4. What type of outburst did Sultana have before the family left on the pilgrimage?

5. How did Amani's family handle her animal obsession?

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