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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Poetry of Personal Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word described a Bedouin man's years of youth?
(a) Sinn ir-rushd.
(b) Shabab.
(c) Shekhukha.
(d) Agil.

2. How was the ghinnawa divisible?
(a) Into a couplet.
(b) Into a caesura.
(c) Into a hemistiche.
(d) Into a dactyl.

3. Who was the man who was criticized for going to find a runaway second wife?
(a) Tanmay.
(b) Daksha.
(c) Rashid.
(d) Efron.

4. What part of the body was frequently mentioned in ghinnawas?
(a) Arm.
(b) Heart.
(c) Eye.
(d) Back.

5. Who wrote the "Alexandria Quartet?"
(a) Lawrence Durrell.
(b) David Corell.
(c) Philip Manchester.
(d) Robert Douchester.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were women said to fear?

2. What color was the compound where Lila lived with the Awlad 'Ali?

3. Before Lila arrived, how long had it been since the Awlad 'Ali migrated to the desert?

4. Where did a youth from the Awlad 'Ali community go to have a serious operation?

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

(see the answer key)

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