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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After only __________, Father told Mother that Sara had been admitted to the hospital and that she and Sultana would go to be with her.
(a) Four months.
(b) One month.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three months.

2. What was the purpose of the group Sultana created?
(a) It was supposed to bring women closer to Allah.
(b) It was supposed to help promote the independence of women.
(c) It was supposed to educate women.
(d) It was supposed to help women make friends.

3. About what did Marci begin talking to Sultana?
(a) Sultana's life.
(b) Her work as a maid.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Her personal life.

4. Why were Sultana and her mother not allowed to see Sara for this length of time?
(a) In order to control them.
(b) In order to give her time to forget them.
(c) In order to give her a chance to settle in to the new situation.
(d) In order to give her time alone with her husband.

5. What would Nadia and Wafa do?
(a) Approach foreign men and ask them if they wanted to meet in their apartments.
(b) Make beautiful artwork and sell it in the market.
(c) Perform music and dance for their father's friends.
(d) Teach reading and writing to other women.

6. Sara had dreams of what?
(a) Staying at home.
(b) Marrying a handsome prince.
(c) Being a single woman.
(d) Studying art and perhaps going to work in a museum.

7. Sara ________ all through the wedding preparations.
(a) Screamed.
(b) Yelled.
(c) Cheered.
(d) Cried.

8. What did Sultana think of Cairo?
(a) She thought nothing of it.
(b) She hated it.
(c) She was afraid of it.
(d) She loved it.

9. Why was Sara in the hospital?
(a) She had attempted suicide.
(b) She had become a nurse.
(c) She was pregnant.
(d) She had become ill.

10. Sultana returned from her trip to learn what?
(a) Her father was dying.
(b) Her mother was dying.
(c) Her mother was having another child.
(d) Her mother was to be executed.

11. When Marci arrived, she had trouble doing what?
(a) Finding work.
(b) Getting in touch with Madeline.
(c) Making friends.
(d) Adjusting to the culture.

12. Sultana's father was the son of whom?
(a) Abdullah Ibrahim.
(b) Abdul Gaddy.
(c) Abdul Aziz.
(d) Abdul Jabbar.

13. Sultana's mother managed to convince Sultana's father to allow whom to be educated?
(a) Their oldest daughters.
(b) All of the sons.
(c) Their younger daughters.
(d) All of the daughters.

14. What were the king's brothers reluctant to do?
(a) Have him murdered.
(b) Tell him to resign.
(c) Force him to resign.
(d) Have him kidnapped.

15. Sultana took Ali's new headdress and did what with it?
(a) Hid it.
(b) Flushed it down the toilet.
(c) Threw it away.
(d) Tore it into little pieces.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long was Ali allowed to choose what Sultana would eat?

2. One afternoon Sultana and Sara returned early from a shopping trip and found Ali and Hadi doing what?

3. Why did Sultana's father decide to marry again?

4. Father was so outraged that he almost allowed the mutawas to do what to Ali for possessing materials that were forbidden in their religion?

5. Sara's marriage had already been made between whom?

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