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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pious activity was forbidden to menstruating women?
(a) Giving alms.
(b) A pilgrimage.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Fasting.

2. What colors were associated with uncleanliness and women?
(a) Green and blue.
(b) Red and blue.
(c) Red and black.
(d) Black and white.

3. What emotion about her husband's second marriage did Mabruka's poetry reveal?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Despair.
(c) Anger.
(d) Bitterness.

4. How many days did paternal relatives wail and cry at a camp where an old woman died suddenly?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. In a Bedouin story, what was God's reason for forbidding Adam and Eve to eat fruit from a particular tree?
(a) They would die.
(b) They would live forever.
(c) It was poisonous.
(d) They would become like gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the "Alexandria Quartet?"

2. What does an unmarried girl use to cover her head?

3. Where did God banish Eve after she ate the fruit?

4. How frequent were droughts in Awlad 'Ali territory?

5. On page 120, what wild edible green do the children gather?

(see the answer key)

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