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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 was Asad's reaction upon seeing Sara?
(a) Comical.
(b) Worried.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

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

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

4. In the aftermath of the invasion, many Kuwaiti refugees escaped where?
(a) To the United States.
(b) To Saudi Arabia.
(c) To Great Britain.
(d) To India.

5. What did women begin doing in Riyadh?
(a) Going without veils.
(b) Attending school.
(c) Driving.
(d) Marrying men of their own choosing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kareem allow Sultana to decide?

2. What did Kareem's mother think about Sultana?

3. Did Kareem agree to Sultana's demands?

4. Ali told his father he wanted to marry. Why?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Sultana feel about Kareem?

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

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

5. Where did the couple go for their honeymoon?

6. How did Sultana and Sara learn about their futures? What did they learn?

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

8. What did Sultana learn about female circumcision?

9. Describe Sultana's wedding ceremony.

10. What led to one of Kareem's brothers wanting to marry Sara?

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