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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. Who is Maha?

2. What is the story about that Maha wrote in London?

3. Arriving at the location of the holy pilgrimage, what was the name of the tent city the family encountered?

4. In Chapter 1, why did Kareem come home in an angry rush and Sultana feared that he had learned of her book?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Amani's family and servants catered to her love of animals.

3. When Sultana told her daughters stories on the plane during their holy pilgrimage, how did their reaction make Sultana feel?

4. Describe how a poor Yemeni girl named Reema fell into the clutches of Aisha's depraved father and fell victim to the mut'a.

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. Explain Sultana's conflicting feelings about the effect her book, Princess, had on her family.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Sultana learned of the impending circumcision of Fatma's granddaughter, she was willing to help in any way she could. Describe Sultana's interaction with Fatma's daughter and the outcome of their conversation. How did Sultana feel about the outcome? What did the situation do to her resolve to help stop female circumcision?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how Amani's religious conversion led her down a different path than the rest of her family. How did Amani feel about her family as her faith changed and grew? How did she treat her family differently after her conversion?

Essay Topic 3

When the sisters all gathered in the Epilogue to commemorate the memory of their mother, each sister confided in Sultana that their mother had told each of them that she thought Sultana was a thief as a child. What did Sultana do then to confirm the idea that she was still a thief and to make her sisters laugh? What discussion caused the laughter to die down? How would you describe the mood of the women at the end of the book?

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