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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Sara expecting while they were on vacation?
(a) A letter from her husband.
(b) Her first child.
(c) A telephone call from her father.
(d) Her divorce papers.

2. What did Kareem have built for Sultana?
(a) A suite attached to her father's home.
(b) A special room for delivering the baby at home.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A suite at the local hospital.

3. A few months later, Sultana called Kareem and agreed to do what?
(a) Send the children home.
(b) Meet him.
(c) Return home.
(d) Divorce him.

4. Sultana gave birth to how many daughters, then suffered a bout with breast cancer?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

5. Why did Sultana's mother-in-law make amends with Sultana?
(a) She feared Sultana's family.
(b) She did not want a scandal.
(c) She did not want to lose her son's affection.
(d) She realized she liked Sultana.

6. Sultana learned she was pregnant and decided to do what?
(a) Have the baby at home.
(b) Give the baby up for adoption.
(c) Have the baby in the United States.
(d) Have an abortion.

7. Did Kareem agree to Sultana's demands?
(a) No.
(b) Not at first.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only many years later.

8. What did Kareem's mother think about Sultana?
(a) She was very adventurous.
(b) She was a kind woman.
(c) She was dangerous.
(d) She was the wrong woman for Kareem.

9. Immediately Kareem's aunts came to the house demanding what?
(a) To end the engagement.
(b) To see Sultana's father.
(c) To see Sultana.
(d) To threaten Sultana.

10. What did Sultana and Kareem continue to do often in the weeks before the wedding?
(a) Speak on the phone.
(b) Write letters.
(c) Go on dates.
(d) See each other.

11. What did her husband quickly do?
(a) Had her tortured.
(b) Divorced her.
(c) Killed her.
(d) Sent her away.

12. What did the nurse learn about Sultana regarding this story?
(a) She did not want to help the girl.
(b) She could do nothing to stop it.
(c) She would do all she could to stop it.
(d) She would tell her father about this girl.

13. What did Kareem allow Sultana to decide?
(a) When the time was right to be involved in a sexual relationship.
(b) When they would end their honeymoon.
(c) Where they would live.
(d) How many children they would have.

14. Why did these boys do this?
(a) They did not like the girl.
(b) They made a bet.
(c) They were bored.
(d) They were drunk and high.

15. That same night, what did Sultana learn?
(a) Sara would be getting married.
(b) She would marry a much older man.
(c) Her father had found a husband for her.
(d) Her father was ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first few days, Kareem refused to do what?

2. For their honeymoon, where did Sultana and Kareem go?

3. What happened to the girl as a result of this encounter?

4. What did the death of this prominent person prompt Asad to do?

5. The pregnant girl's father planned to wait until the baby was born for what to happen?

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