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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does ghinnawa mean?
(a) Beautiful poem.
(b) Quiet song.
(c) Thoughtful poem.
(d) Little song.

3. What part of the body was frequently mentioned in ghinnawas?
(a) Eye.
(b) Back.
(c) Arm.
(d) Heart.

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

5. When an old woman suddenly died, what did some suggest her husband had done?
(a) Beat her.
(b) Strangled her.
(c) Hit her over the head.
(d) Choked her.

6. During what occasion did Lila hear men sing in public?
(a) Wedding.
(b) Sheep shearing.
(c) Funeral.
(d) Circumcision.

7. What was the year when the Haj had his first romance?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1950.

8. With whom did Aziza have recurring problems?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

9. 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 brother.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her cousin.

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

11. How was the ghinnawa divisible?
(a) Into a dactyl.
(b) Into a caesura.
(c) Into a couplet.
(d) Into a hemistiche.

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

13. In a photograph on page 192, what did women use as a windbreak?
(a) A hubcap.
(b) Old olive oil tin.
(c) Branches.
(d) A board.

14. Of the ghinnawas that Lila recorded when she stayed with the Awlad 'Ali, how many were duplicates?
(a) About 10.
(b) Only a few.
(c) About 20.
(d) Only 7 or 8.

15. What type of personal relationships were of great concern among the Bedouins?
(a) Love relationships with persons of the opposite sex.
(b) Relationships between different tribes.
(c) Mother and daughter relationships.
(d) Father and son relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years before Lila's arrival had a young man been murdered?

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

3. What is the English translation of the phrase used by the Awlad 'Ali that begins the lament to mourn a death?

4. How old was Migdim?

5. 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?

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