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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. What did Sultana's friend's father allow her?
(a) To choose a Saudi Arabian man as a husband.
(b) The freedom to live her life her own way.
(c) To attend school in Saudi Arabia.
(d) To go on vacation in Europe.

2. How did the nurse react to this story?
(a) She was unsure.
(b) She was worried.
(c) She was sad.
(d) She was outraged.

3. Sultana took her passport and a letter allowing her to travel that she forged and flew to Dubai. Why did she fly here?
(a) Her family lived in Dubai.
(b) This is where the children were attending a camp.
(c) In Dubai she was safe from her husband's control.
(d) Dubai was an inexepensive place to live.

4. 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.

5. The illness left Sultana in danger, so she underwent what surgery?
(a) A double mastectomy.
(b) Cosmetic surgery.
(c) Breast implantation.
(d) Sterilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sultana and her mother-in-law got into a shoving match. What did Kareem do when he saw this?

2. What did Sultana learn about a woman she met on the plane?

3. Huda was whom in Sultana's household?

4. That same night, what did Sultana learn?

5. What did her husband quickly do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sultana react to learning she was to be married?

2. What did Sultana learn about female circumcision?

3. How did Sultana feel in the "Epilogue?" Why did she feel this way?

4. What story did Sultana learn while in the hospital?

5. How did the king die?

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

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

8. How did Kareem and Sultana finally make up?

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

10. What did Sultana learn about an old friend, prior to her friend's father's death?

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