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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unique attitude toward women's rights did Sultana's daughter Amani have?

2. During the purification process before the holy pilgrimage, what was the policy on cutting hair?

3. What did Sultana and Kareem discover that Maha was taking to work with her at the hospital?

4. Why did Sultana regret taking fourteen year old Amani on the holy pilgrimage at such an impressionable age?

5. How did Amani's love of animals test her family's patience?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Maha's relationship with Aisha.

2. Explain the circumstances that led to Sultana's exposure as the author of Princess.

3. Describe what happened at the eventful and memorable dinner with Lawand and Sara that Sultana recalled in Chapter 5.

4. What forbidden items did Sultana discover among Maha's possessions, and who did she believe gave them to her?

5. When the family was in the final days of their holy pilgrimage and came to the Plain of Mina, explain what was being done with hundreds of goats and other animals and how Amani reacted when she arrived and witnessed what was going on there.

6. Describe the purification process that faithful Muslims observe before their holy pilgrimage.

7. Describe how the book Princess affected the relationship between Kareem and Sultana.

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

9. Describe the London psychiatrist's reaction to Kareem's offer to come work for the family in Saudi Arabia, and how Sultana felt about it.

10. When Kareem bumped into an old friend from school name Yousif, he discovered that the man was quite different from the boy he knew. Explain Yousif's opinion of women in Saudi Arabia and describe Kareem's reaction to learning about his old friend's ideas about right and wrong.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Maha and Aisha became friends, both were exposed to the barbaric and depraved acts of Aisha's father.

Part 1) Describe the specific depraved behaviors of Aisha's father that Maha and Aisha witnessed.

Part 2) Explain the behaviors and actions in which Maha and Aisha engaged, due to the inappropriate influence of Aisha's father.

Essay Topic 2

Prior to leaving on a holy pilgrimage, Muslims are required to go through a process of cleansing and purification called Ihram.

Part 1) Explain the various aspects of Ihram and the cleaning or purification value of each.

Part 2) Describe Sultana's struggle with the processes of Ihram. Why did she have so much trouble?

Essay Topic 3

Many of the women Sultana knew wished that they could divorce their husbands. Explain how divorce worked in Saudi Arabia. What different rules about divorce applied to men and women? What consequences of divorce were there for men and for women?

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