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

2. What emotion about her husband's second marriage did Mabruka's poetry reveal?
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Despair.
(d) Jealousy.

3. What project did Mabruka refuse to help with because of Rashid's second marriage?
(a) Sewing a tent.
(b) Sewing a blanket.
(c) Sewing a dress.
(d) Sewing a quilt.

4. What was a man who needed women called?
(a) A dog.
(b) A skunk.
(c) A turkey.
(d) A donkey.

5. What drapes over the tent or automobile that carries a bride to her new home?
(a) A man's green toga.
(b) A large white blanket.
(c) A large red blanket.
(d) A man's white toga.

Short Answer Questions

1. What values were at the heart of the Awlad 'Ali moral system?

2. What did many poems explicitly request?

3. What does an unmarried girl use to cover her head?

4. 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?

5. With whom did men share poems?

(see the answer key)

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