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

2. What family crisis changed the way Kareem felt about the pilgrimage?

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

4. What was Amani like as a child?

5. During what season of the Muslim faith did Sultana and her family make the holy pilgrimage?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of the family's holy pilgrimage, Sultana had great worries about Amani's future. Explain why Sultana feared that Amani might become a religious extremist?

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

3. Explain how Sultana felt that the strict segregation of Saudi Arabia affected society.

4. In explaining a woman's place in Saudi society to their children, describe the example Kareem gave of the Prophet Mohammad's opinion on the subject and Sultana's explanation of what the Koran says about a woman's place among men.

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

6. 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.

7. In the end, explain what the family decided to do about Sultana and the book and how they treated her.

8. Describe how Sultana's father, brother and husband reacted as they read passages from her book out loud at the family meeting.

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

10. As Sultana gazed upon a photo of her uncle, the king of Saudi Arabia, Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, what thoughts and feelings did she have about the man's character?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book, Sultana expressed a belief that her dead mother was communicating with her from beyond the grave. Recall at least two instances in which Sultana believed that her mother was communicating with her and describe the messages and the circumstances.

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

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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