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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. What had Sara's husband done to her?

2. Who did Father marry?

3. What did Nura say about Ali's and Hadi's behavior?

4. What did Nadia's father do?

5. Sultana recalled overhearing a meeting between whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Nura take Sultana and Sara on a trip?

2. What happened when Sultana returned from her trip?

3. What led to Randa's divorce from Sultana's father?

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

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

6. Why was Sara married to this man?

7. What happened one day when Sultana and Sara returned early from a shopping trip?

8. How was Sara able to get divorced?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There was animosity between Sultana and her brother, Ali.

Part 1) Why did this animosity exist? What did it reveal about their personalities?

Part 2) How have their parents played a role in their relationship?

Part 3) How were both Ali and Sultana adversely affected by the way they have been raised and their relationship with each other?

Essay Topic 2

Sultana created a woman's group.

Part 1) Describe this woman's group. Why did she create this group? Why did it not turn out as she had planned?

Part 2) How could this group have been beneficial? Throughout history, what other women's groups have been formed? Why?

Part 3) Would a woman's group be necessary if men and women were equals? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Sultana did not attempt to help women in need.

Part 1) Describe the events in which Sultana did not go to the aid of other women. Why did she not try to help them?

Part 2) What did this lack of help for women in need say about the Saudi Arabian culture? What did it reveal about the women of this culture?

Part 3) If you were Sultana, would you have tried to help these women? Why or why not?

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