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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sultana returned from her trip to learn what?

2. Did Sultana choose to begin wearing a veil and abaaya when she was in Cairo?

3. The brothers decided they would first attempt what?

4. Within hours the mutawas,_______________, came to Sultana's house and told Father what they had found.

5. Sultana's father was a very wealthy man who spoiled whom with great riches?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had happened to Madeline?

2. How did Sultana's trip end?

3. What did Sultana and her mother learn about Sara's hospitalization?

4. Describe the first fight that took place between Sultana and Ali.

5. How did Sultana's father treat her and her sisters? How did he treat her brother? How did Sultana feel about this?

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

7. What happened to Ali as a result of the exposed pornography?

8. How did Marci come to Saudi Arabia?

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

10. What meeting did Sultana overhear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The king of Saudi Arabia died.

Part 1) Describe this king. How was his country affected by his death? How were Sultana and her family affected? Why?

Part 2) What global effects might be seen due to his death? Why?

Part 3) Is the death a U.S. president as significant as the death of a Saudi Arabian king? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Sultana and some of her sisters were educated.

Part 1) Why did they receive an education? How did this affect them?

Part 2) Could the education of women help their situation in Saudi Arabia? If so, how? If not, why not?

Part 3) How did Sultana use her education to benefit herself and her family? What could you learn from this?

Essay Topic 3

Sultana's mother died.

Part 1) How did this affect Sultana? How did the rituals surrounding the death of a woman support the theme of oppression?

Part 2) What other women died in this story? Why? How did these deaths also support the theme of oppression?

Part 3) How is death a theme in this book? How is this related to the other themes?

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