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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. Why does Re-mose return to Dinah?

2. Who does Dinah see at Re-mose's celebration?

3. Who is Rebecca furious with?

4. What does Dinah learn about her family when she speaks to Joseph?

5. In this chapter, how does DInah defy her mothers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shalem make Dinah his wife?

2. What happens to Jacob?

3. How does Dinah feel when she learns she is pregnant?

4. What does DInah do when she returns to Jacob's camp?

5. What happens to Werenro at the end of Chapter 7?

6. Why does Benia track down Dinah?

7. What does Dinah become in Egypt, Chapter 3?

8. Why does Dinah call Rebecca's assistants Deborahs?

9. What does Jacob do once he has learned about the ceremony?

10. Why does Re-mose become so angry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Give three examples of how the women of the Red Tent exert their own sexual agency. Explain how they exert it in the book.

2. Give two examples of how women are stopped from exerting their own sexual agency.

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between Dinah's relationship with Benia and her relationship with Shalem? What you label these two relationships? Why?

Essay Topic 3

If you could be a character in the story, how would you intervene or change the course of events? Which section would you choose and why?

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