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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Father threatened to do what if Mother did not stop pushing the issue?
(a) Force her to get a job.
(b) Divorce Mother and leave her destitute.
(c) Leave her in the hospital.
(d) Beat her.

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

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

4. Sara learns at the age of _________ that she is to be married.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Sixteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What took place in the middle of the desert as was the tradition in their country?

2. The brothers decided they would first attempt what?

3. Sultana recalled overhearing a meeting between whom?

4. What else did they do in these cities?

5. What did Wafa's father immediately do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the consequences of Sultana's fight with Ali?

2. For how long were Sultana and her mother told to stay away from Sara? Why were they able to see her after only four months?

3. How did Sultana and her sister, Sara, feel about this opportunity to be educated?

4. Describe Sara during the wedding.

5. Why did Marci have trouble being in touch with Madeline?

6. Why did Sultana's father marry again? How did Sultana feel about this?

7. Why did Nura take Sultana and Sara on a trip?

8. What was significant about Sultana's trip to Cairo?

9. What had happened to Madeline?

10. What happened one day when Sultana and Sara returned early from a shopping trip?

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