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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. How far did the Western Desert stretch to the Libyan border?
(a) 1,500 kilometers.
(b) 500 kilometers.
(c) 1,000 kilometers.
(d) 600 kilometers.

2. What illness did the Bedouin believe could be caused by fright?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Hepatitis.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Polio.

3. What tribes were the true Awlad 'Ali?
(a) Beni-Hasan.
(b) Sa'adi.
(c) Al Adwan.
(d) Rwala.

4. What was the Bedouin social system touted to be?
(a) Unitarian.
(b) Authoritarian.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Egalitarian.

5. What city did Lila spend time in while waiting for her father to arrive in Egypt?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Amman.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Port Said.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many client households were in the camp where Lila lived?

2. What nickname did foreigners give Alexandrian taxis?

3. After a feast for a neighbor who returned from a pilgrimage, what did Lila and some adolescent girls do?

4. When did Lila's new life begin to seem natural, so she felt as if she belonged with the Awlad 'Ali?

5. In a Bedouin story, what was God's reason for forbidding Adam and Eve to eat fruit from a particular tree?

(see the answer key)

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