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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 Amani began to invite friends and extended family over for meetings, what was the purpose?
(a) To practice witchcraft secretly.
(b) For prayer.
(c) For planning a revolution.
(d) For discussing ways to look and dress more like Americans.

2. After the family's holy pilgrimage, they wished to return to Riyadh, but what forced them to delay the trip home?
(a) Maha became ill.
(b) A sandstorm grounded their plane.
(c) Sultana had to help her sister, Sara, on an important errand.
(d) Kareem abandoned the family at their vacation home.

3. How did the story of Reema's situation leave Sultana feeling?
(a) Angry and ready to fight.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Hopeful and excited.
(d) Downcast and disillusioned.

4. What was the outcome of Sultana's and her sister's talk with Ali's wife, Nada?
(a) She was angry and undecided about what to do.
(b) She was anxious to remarry him for the sake of her children.
(c) She eventually went back to him when he promised her wealth and jewelry.
(d) She was planning to surprise him with a secret wedding and honeymoon.

5. When Sultana and Fatma returned home, how did Sultana feel on the drive back?
(a) She was triumphant and pleased with the outcome.
(b) She was concerned but hopeful that things would go well.
(c) She was upset and sobbed all the way home.
(d) She worried that she did not do enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sultana discover that Abdullah had done?

2. Who was Reema?

3. What would have happened to Reema if she ever officially divorced her husband?

4. How did Fatma's family react to Sultana's intrusion into their lives?

5. How did Fayza's family get her back from Jafer?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Explain why female circumcision was still practiced in Saudi Arabia during Sultana's lifetime.

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

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

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

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 opening scene of Chapter 8, Sultana broke up an argument between her children over a newspaper. Explain why the newspaper was such a hot topic for the siblings.

8. In the weeks after the holy pilgrimage, Sultana began to see great changes in Amani's actions and personality. Describe some of Amani's actions and personality changes that frightened Sultana and made her fear that Amani might one day join an extremist terrorist cult.

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. 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.

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