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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what tribe was the girl that the Haj loved when he was young?
(a) Mrabit tribe.
(b) Harb tribe.
(c) Ghamid tribe.
(d) Zaab tribe.

2. In a Bedouin story, what was God's reason for forbidding Adam and Eve to eat fruit from a particular tree?
(a) It was poisonous.
(b) They would die.
(c) They would live forever.
(d) They would become like gods.

3. In what point of view do they write ghinnawas?
(a) 2nd person.
(b) 1st person omniscient.
(c) 3rd person.
(d) 1st person limited.

4. What illness did Aziza have?
(a) A heart murmur.
(b) A hideous and painful skin disease.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) A problem with menstruation.

5. With whom did men share poems?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Men who are a generation older than their fathers.
(c) Close kinsmen of their generation or lower status men.
(d) Their uncles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days did paternal relatives wail and cry at a camp where an old woman died suddenly?

2. During World War II, who fought battles on Bedouin soil?

3. What beach is mentioned in the "Alexandria Quartet?"

4. What German explorer published ghinnawas?

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

(see the answer key)

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