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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 news did Fatma bring Sultana the day after Sultana helped her with a problem?
(a) Her daughter had changed her mind and called off the circumcision.
(b) Her husband had died overnight from lack of medical care.
(c) She was quitting and would no longer work for Sultana's family.
(d) Her granddaughter had been circumcised the evening before.

2. When Sultana became distressed over problems with her children, how did she begin to damage herself physically?
(a) She began cutting herself.
(b) She began twisting and pulling out her hair.
(c) She started taking drugs.
(d) She gorged herself on fatty foods and developed heart disease.

3. How did Jafer and Fayza meet?
(a) They were neighbors and grew up together.
(b) At a chance meeting at Kareem's law firm.
(c) Abdullah introduced them.
(d) At the souk (public market).

4. Who was Reema?
(a) Kareem's new wife.
(b) Sultana's middle sister.
(c) Sultana's oldest daughter.
(d) Kareem's mother.

5. To where did Jafer and Fayza flee together?
(a) Australia.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of the Wonder Garment?

2. How did Amani's brother and sister deal with her changing behavior?

3. Why did Sultana blame Saudi society for Jafer and Fayza's decision to elope?

4. What else did the family learn that Abdullah took from the family safe?

5. With Fayza back in Saudi Arabia, what did Jafer do with his life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Due to the stress of what was happening with her children in the beginning of Chapter 9, Sultana developed what some call a "nervous twitch." Explain how Sultana's stress manifested itself into this "nervous twitch" and what type it was.

2. What was the "Wonder Garment" that Sultana found, and where did she find it?

3. When the sisters went to visit with Reema, how did her husband, Saleem, react when he saw Reema's condition?

4. Amani learned of a horrible family secret involving Ali's son, Majed. Explain what happened to the woman in the hospital and how Majed was involved.

5. After the family's holy pilgrimage, a sandstorm prohibited them from returning to Riyadh and they travel to their vacation home in Jeddah. Explain how Jeddah was different from Riyadh in regard to its restrictions on women.

6. In addition to other important items, it was revealed that Abdullah also took nearly one million dollars in cash from the family safe. Explain what Abdullah did with that money and how Kareem felt about it.

7. In the Epilogue, the sisters all gathered to remember their mother and to catch up on each other's lives. What did they learn had become of both Ali's wife, Nada, and their sister, Reema?

8. Explain what Sultana found was missing from the family's safe after Kareem had suspicions about Abdullah's interest in helping his friend Jafer.

9. When Sultana and her family arrived in Monaco to share a rented mansion villa with Sultana's sisters, why were the sisters in a state of anxiety and great sadness?

10. One night in Cairo, Sultana's housekeeper began wailing while she cooked the family's supper. Why was Fatma upset?

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