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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Sultana's father arrived, her mother insisted that he allow Sara to do what?
(a) Find a new husband.
(b) Go back to her husband.
(c) Leave the marriage.
(d) Commit suicide.

2. How was Sultana's grandfather important?
(a) He won back control of his country from the Rasheed clan and became the first king of Saudi Arabia.
(b) He was the first member of her family to attend college.
(c) He discovered oil in Saudi Arabia.
(d) He was an important businessman in Saudi Arabia.

3. Did Sultana choose to begin wearing a veil and abaaya when she was in Cairo?
(a) At first.
(b) No.
(c) Part of the time.
(d) Yes.

4. What did Sultana do to her father's new wife?
(a) She abused her.
(b) She teased her.
(c) She befriended her.
(d) She ignored her.

5. Sultana spent some time in the cockpit with the American pilots, an event that helped her to see what?
(a) Americans are nice.
(b) Not all men are cruel.
(c) American men are the same as Saudi Arabian men.
(d) Americans are intelligent.

6. Marci began to tell Sultana what story?
(a) How she was raised.
(b) How she learned to be a maid.
(c) How she came to Saudi Arabia and what happened to her friend Madeline.
(d) How she learned Arabic.

7. What did Nura say about Ali's and Hadi's behavior?
(a) She would tell their father.
(b) She would go to the police.
(c) There was nothing they can do.
(d) There was only a little that she could do.

8. Mother and Sultana had to wait for Omar to bring them the letter from Father that would allow them to do what?
(a) Visit Sara.
(b) Drive.
(c) Fly.
(d) Enter Sara's hospital room.

9. 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) Two months.
(b) Four months.
(c) Three months.
(d) One month.

10. Sultana attended Sara's wedding, which began where?
(a) In the family palace.
(b) In tents in the backyard.
(c) In a park.
(d) At a mosque.

11. Sultana recalled overhearing a meeting between whom?
(a) Her father and mother.
(b) Her father and his brothers.
(c) Her mother and her father's other wives.
(d) Her father and brother.

12. Why did Nadia's father choose her punishment?
(a) He was very angry and not making logical choices.
(b) He felt it was the only way to punish her.
(c) He felt the damage to the family's reputation was so bad that he had no choice.
(d) He felt it was the only way to protect the family name.

13. What else did they do in these cities?
(a) Saw the sights.
(b) Shopped for veils.
(c) Preached the word of Allah.
(d) Bought gourmet food.

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

15. Why does Nura do this?
(a) In order to cheer up Sultana.
(b) In order to cheer up Sara.
(c) In order to get her sisters out of the country.
(d) In order to have company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sultana refused to give an apple the cook had given her to whom?

2. Sultana became ____________ what her father would do to her when he learned what happened.

3. Sultana returned from her trip to learn what?

4. Why was Ali given the privilege of choosing what Sultana would eat at every meal?

5. What did Wafa's father immediately do?

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