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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the Haj when he had his first romance?
(a) 17.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

2. How old was Migdim?
(a) 50's.
(b) 70's.
(c) 60's.
(d) 40's.

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

4. How many days did paternal relatives wail and cry at a camp where an old woman died suddenly?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. During Lila's stay among the Awlad 'Ali, how many ghinnawas did she record?
(a) 375.
(b) 450.
(c) 520.
(d) 475.

6. When Lila has difficulty translating imagery that Makraba used in her poetry about her husband's second marriage, what are the images of? When Lila has difficulty translating imagery that Makraba used in her poetry about her husband's second marriage, what are the images of?
(a) Predator and prey.
(b) Sleep and death.
(c) Road and journey.
(d) Ships and harbors.

7. What did the husband of a wife ask her to get rid of after he "left" her for two years?
(a) Calves.
(b) Goats.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Chickens.

8. When a girl of about seventeen died, who did her family blame?
(a) A man who frightened her by shooting a rifle in the air.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) A man who drove by too fast in a jeep.
(d) Her brother.

9. What was the only thing that Lila was usually able to tape record?
(a) Private concerts.
(b) Wedding festivities.
(c) Business transactions.
(d) Funerals.

10. In a love story in Chapter 8, who killed a girl when she wailed and cried over the death of the boy she loved?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her father.

11. What popular cultural theme becomes tied up with ghinnawas?
(a) Death of a child.
(b) Death of a lover.
(c) Thwarted love.
(d) A second marriage.

12. What did many poems explicitly request?
(a) Help or care.
(b) Consideration.
(c) Love.
(d) Tenderness.

13. How many of the adults in the community where Lila lived had been officially divorced at least once?
(a) Over 1/2.
(b) 1/4.
(c) Over 1/3.
(d) 2/3.

14. Which particular gift given to her husband's new bride did the first wife Mabruka resent?
(a) Western-style jewelry.
(b) A pair of Western-style sandals.
(c) A veil.
(d) A belt.

15. The absence of what was marked by sharing of poetry between individuals?
(a) Thesham.
(b) Tahashsham.
(c) Yithashshamu.
(d) Hasham.

Short Answer Questions

1. When an old woman suddenly died, what did some suggest her husband had done?

2. What part of the body was frequently mentioned in ghinnawas?

3. What theme became associated most closely with the ghinnawa?

4. Where had Aziza's husband been working when they marry?

5. What was the theme of the first song and poem Fayga shared with Lila?

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