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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. What beverage is mentioned in the "Alexandria Quartet?"
(a) Beer.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Tea.
(d) Lemonade.

2. When was Lila's host mysteriously absent for a period?
(a) For her first two months in the field.
(b) Toward the end of Lila's time in the field.
(c) Six months before the end of Lila's fieldwork.
(d) For six months during the second year of Lila's fieldwork.

3. What tragedy had a middle-aged wife of a powerful tribal leader experienced two and a half years before she recited a poem to Lila?
(a) Her brother died.
(b) Her daughter died.
(c) Lost her only son.
(d) Her husband was killed.

4. What crop did the Awlad 'Ali sow yearly?
(a) Flax.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Barley.
(d) Oats.

5. What types of trees did the Awlad 'Ali plant?
(a) Olive and almond trees.
(b) Palm and date trees.
(c) Willow and mulberry trees.
(d) Sycamore and lotus trees.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would ewes have been fed in the desert?

3. When did the Awlad 'Ali migrate into Egypt?

4. From what country did the Awlad 'Ali migrate?

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

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