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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the marriage beneficial to Father?
(a) The groom was a member of a leading merchant family.
(b) The groom loved Sara and would care for her.
(c) The groom was a good friend of the family.
(d) The groom was very kind.

2. As Sultana and her brother fought, Omar, their father's driver, didwhat?
(a) Called their father.
(b) Separated them and reported the fight to their father.
(c) Yelled at them.
(d) Ignored them.

3. What did Sultana and her sisters do for their mother?
(a) They prayed for her.
(b) They took care of the baby.
(c) They left her alone.
(d) They remained by their mother's side until the end came.

4. Why did Sultana's father decide to marry again?
(a) He made a promise to a business associate.
(b) He liked getting married.
(c) To bring the number of his wives back to four.
(d) He missed his wife and was trying to replace her.

5. What did Wafa's father immediately do?
(a) He arranged for Wafa to be exiled.
(b) He arranged for Wafa to be married.
(c) He arranged for Wafa to be put into a convent.
(d) He arranged for Wafa to be killed.

6. What did Sara's husband say three times in front of two male witnesses?
(a) He wanted to marry her.
(b) He was sorry.
(c) He divorced her.
(d) He loved her.

7. What took place in the middle of the desert as was the tradition in their country?
(a) Father wasvburied in an unmarked grave.
(b) Mother was buried in an unmarked grave.
(c) The family prayed.
(d) The family built a palace.

8. When this did not work, what did they do?
(a) They had no choice but to force a resignation.
(b) They had no choice but to bribe him.
(c) They had no choice but to ask him to resign.
(d) They had no choice but to have him assassinated.

9. Who was the king when this story took place?
(a) Abdul.
(b) Sa'ud.
(c) Aziz.
(d) Ibn.

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

11. Sultana and Mother were told they could not visit Sara for how long after her wedding?
(a) Six months.
(b) Five months.
(c) Eight months.
(d) Seven months.

12. How was this man as king?
(a) He was good.
(b) He was bad.
(c) He was unusual.
(d) He was lazy.

13. Sara would only be one among many _________ to her new husband.
(a) Friends.
(b) Wives.
(c) Servants.
(d) Subjects.

14. What was a result of Ali being allowed to choose her meals?
(a) She often was not fed anything.
(b) She often went to bed hungry
(c) She often had good meals.
(d) She often had very rich food.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. No one would do anything about Ali, because Sultana's father did not see the harm in what?

2. Mother and Sultana had to wait for Omar to bring them the letter from Father that would allow them to do what?

3. What would Sultana eventually get?

4. When Sultana's father arrived, her mother insisted that he allow Sara to do what?

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

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