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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Kaaba? .
(a) The Muslim holy book.
(b) The name given to the holy pilgrimage Muslim's make to Makkah.
(c) The Muslim holy season during which they do not eat until after sundown.
(d) A holy shrine in the central courtyard of Makkah.

2. What impact on women's rights did the Gulf War have for the women of Saudi Arabia?
(a) The restrictions were lessened.
(b) The restrictions became harsher.
(c) The restrictions vanished for a short period of time.
(d) The war had little impact on women's rights.

3. How did Amani attempt to sabotage her family when they went hunting?
(a) She called the police and reported them.
(b) She hid their car keys and made it impossible to leave.
(c) She dismantled their gins and threw ammunition away.
(d) She refused to eat or speak until they agreed to cancel their hunting trip.

4. How was the marriage of Kareem and Sultana affected by Sultana's book?
(a) They argued, but their marriage ended up stronger than ever.
(b) Kareem immediately divorced Sultana.
(c) Kareem punished Sultana by placing her in seclusion in the women's room.
(d) Kareem did not divorce Sultana but sent her to live in Egypt with her daughters.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Jean Sasson?

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

3. How did Maha react to the decision regarding her relationship with Aisha?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sultana's experience of purification before the holy pilgrimage.

2. Explain the effects that the Gulf War had on the women of Saudi Arabia, and Sultana's daughter, Maha, in particular.

3. Explain mut'a, the cruel and selfish custom practiced by the depraved father of Maha's friend, Aisha.

4. Explain why Sultana wondered if her daughter, Amani, was switched at birth with her sister's daughter, Nashwa?

5. Explain the circumstances of Lawand's life and how she fared.

6. Describe the story Maha wrote while in London.

7. Describe how Sultana's father, brother and husband reacted as they read passages from her book out loud at the family meeting.

8. As Sultana gazed upon a photo of her uncle, the king of Saudi Arabia, Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, what thoughts and feelings did she have about the man's character?

9. Describe how Kareem seemed to Sultana to be more modern-thinking and progressive in his attitude toward women.

10. Describe why Sultana reacted as she did when she heard that two men were trampled to death at Makkah.

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