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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Modesty, Gender, and Sexuality.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the man who inherited wealth, but lost respect because he submitted to his passions and chased women?
(a) Zariba.
(b) Daivik.
(c) Babak.
(d) Madhav.

3. When did Lila's new life begin to seem natural, so she felt as if she belonged with the Awlad 'Ali?
(a) After 12 months.
(b) After 18 months.
(c) After 6 months.
(d) After 15 months.

4. When did Lila first realize the sensitive nature of the poems recited by the women?
(a) When Lila heard a poem at a wedding.
(b) When Lila heard a poem at a birth.
(c) When Lila heard one of these poems at a funeral.
(d) When a shepherd's wife recited one of these poems.

5. When did the Awlad 'Ali migrate into Egypt?
(a) End of the 15th or 16th centuries.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 13th century.
(d) End of the 17th or 18th centuries.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far did the Western Desert stretch to the Libyan border?

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

3. In what city had the bonds between Bedouin kin been weakened in favor of those between neighbors?

4. What color cummerbund would the women of the Awlad 'Ali wear around their waists?

5. When Lila did her fieldwork, how many of the five core household heads married paternal first cousins?

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