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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. Why did they live here?
(a) They did not have the money to build their own palace.
(b) Kareem had a large home.
(c) Sultana had a palace built as a gift for Kareem.
(d) They were waiting until their own palace could be built.

2. Ali told his father he wanted to marry. Why?
(a) He wanted a virtuous Saudi woman in his life.
(b) He wanted children.
(c) He ws lonely.
(d) He was in love.

3. What did Huda claim to have?
(a) Psychic abilities.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Many friends.

4. On the morning of the wedding, how did Sultana feel?
(a) Happy.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately Kareem's aunts came to the house demanding what?

2. The following day Asad announced what?

3. Father agreed when Sultana asked what?

4. Sultana and Kareem moved into whose home?

5. What did Kareem allow Sultana to decide?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sultana feel about Kareem?

2. What did Sultana learn from a woman she met on the flight to London?

3. What happened when Hussein invaded Kuwait in late 1990?

4. What happened after Sultana suffers a bout of breast cancer?

5. How did Sultana react to Kareem's request to marry again?

6. Describe the relationship between Kareem and Sultana at the beginning of their marriage.

7. Where did the couple go for their honeymoon?

8. How did Sultana and her mother-in-law finally make up?

9. How did Sultana force Kareem to sign an agreement to not marry another as long as she was alive?

10. Describe Ali's return home and his behavior upon his return.

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