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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. Nura and her husband, Ahmed, took Sultana, Sara, Ali, and Ali's friend Hadi to Cairo to do what?
(a) Visit museums.
(b) Begin buying clothes.
(c) Begin buying furnishings for their new palace.
(d) See the sights.

2. Which of these describes Father's new wife?
(a) She was old and crippled.
(b) She was young and immature.
(c) She was young and frightened.
(d) She was young and enthusiastic.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nadia's father do?

2. King Faisal's wife was a woman who believed what?

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

4. What would Sultana eventually get?

5. What did Sultana do to her father's new wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ali as a child. Why was he allowed to act this way?

2. Why did Sultana begin to know the personal life of her maid?

3. What were the consequences for Wafa and Nadia?

4. How did Sultana's trip end?

5. What did Sultana and Sara do about this?

6. What was the purpose of the marriage ceremony?

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

8. Why could nothing be done for this little girl?

9. What did Sultana do with Ali's pornography stash? Why did she do this?

10. How did Marci come to Saudi Arabia?

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