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

2. Worried, Kareem calls Sultana to check the family's safe for what?
(a) The family jewels.
(b) A large sum of American dollars.
(c) The children's passports.
(d) His father's will.

3. What help did Fatma seek from Sultana?
(a) She wanted Sultana to send food and medicine to Fatma's family in Cairo.
(b) She wanted money to guarantee her silence.
(c) She thought her family would listen to the princess.
(d) She wanted protection from Kareem, whom she feared.

4. What did Sultana discover was missing from the safe when she checked it after Kareem called her?
(a) All of the family's legal paperwork was missing.
(b) The passports for Abdullah and Maha were missing.
(c) All of the cash was missing.
(d) A precious diamond and ruby necklace was missing.

5. Why did the siblings fight over a newspaper in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Abdullah was trying to read the paper and his sisters set fire to it.
(b) They argued over whose fault it was that it had been left on the floor.
(c) There was an article about Sultana's book and Amani wanted to show her despite her siblings' protests.
(d) Amani said that it was holy and could not be thrown away because the name of God was printed on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Sultana's brother, Ali, drove the sisters to visit Reema, what opinion did Ali share?

2. What vow did Sultana make to herself as she fell asleep after dealing with Fatma's problem?

3. After hearing Amani speak poorly of her family, why did Sultana lock the family's jewels in a safe?

4. What was the aftermath of Abdullah's plan?

5. After the holy pilgrimage, how did Amani's clothing change?

Short Essay Questions

1. Sultana blamed Amani's upbringing for her extreme religious conversion. Explain the differences in the economic climate between the time of Sultana's childhood and that of Amani.

2. Sultana had very specific feelings and thoughts about her husband, Kareem, throughout the course of Chapter 9. What were some of her feelings and thoughts, and how did she ultimately feel about being married to a man like Kareem?

3. 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?

4. When Sultana went to speak with Fatma's daughter, what was the outcome?

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 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?

7. Explain what happened to Jafer and Fayza after they decided to elope.

8. Explain what obstacle Ali faced after divorcing his wife, Nada, for the third time.

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

10. Describe the main reason why Abdullah's friend, Jafer, and Fayza were forbidden to marry.

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