View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Honor and Poetic Vulnerability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the camp where Lila lived, how many adults were in the fourteen households that made up the camp?
(a) 47.
(b) 42.
(c) 58.
(d) 53.

2. What upset Migdim when she came to stay in the household where Lila was living?
(a) That she was given leftovers.
(b) That she was not greeted when she arrived.
(c) That she was given no bedding.
(d) That she was shunted from room to room.

3. When did the Awlad 'Ali typically consummate a marriage after the wedding?
(a) Early afternoon of the wedding day.
(b) Late at night after the wedding.
(c) A week after the wedding.
(d) Morning after the wedding.

4. Where did Rashid sleep when he assigned blame to someone for his second wife's running away?
(a) The men's guest room.
(b) His father's home.
(c) His first wife's room.
(d) A tent.

5. In a story about the creation of Adam and Eve, what instrument was the Devil playing?
(a) A harmonica.
(b) A stringed instrument.
(c) A drum.
(d) A flute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose definition did Lila use to define discourse?

2. What emotion about her husband's second marriage did Mabruka's poetry reveal?

3. Why was Lila's host mysteriously absent for a time?

4. Where did Adam and Eve meet again after God banished them?

5. How much of the Egyptian population consist of Bedouins of the Western desert when Lila did her fieldwork?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 245 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample