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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Identity in Relationships.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a feast for a neighbor who returned from a pilgrimage, what did Lila and some adolescent girls do?
(a) Prepared food.
(b) Collected firewood.
(c) Carried water.
(d) Sewed.

2. How many client households were in the camp where Lila lived?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

3. From what country did the Awlad 'Ali migrate?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Chad.
(d) Libya.

4. What form of poetry did the ghinnawas most resemble?
(a) An Italian canzone.
(b) A quatrain.
(c) A cinquain.
(d) Japanese haiku.

5. What changed the Haj's mother's attitude toward Lila?
(a) Her brother's funeral.
(b) Her husband's funeral.
(c) Her son's wedding.
(d) Her daughter's wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave the Awlad 'Ali rights to land in the Western desert in the nineteenth century?

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

3. Where was a young man shot during an altercation between some Bedouin men and a group of Egyptian soldiers riding on a train through a Bedouin area?

4. When did Lila first realize the sensitive nature of the poems recited by the women?

5. In the "Alexandria Quartet," what was a Bedouin youth carrying on his head?

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