View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Haj's first wife?
(a) Maalini.
(b) Gatifa.
(c) Daija.
(d) Aadi.

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

3. In a story about the creation of Adam and Eve, what instrument was the Devil playing?
(a) A stringed instrument.
(b) A flute.
(c) A harmonica.
(d) A drum.

4. What did the Awlad 'Ali believe distinguished them from and made them superior to other peoples?
(a) Peace.
(b) Honor.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Morality.

5. What pious activity was forbidden to menstruating women?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Fasting.
(c) Giving alms.
(d) A pilgrimage.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a folktale, when a man gave birth, what carried the baby away?

2. Where was a young man shot during an altercation between some Bedouin men and a group of Egyptian soldiers riding on a train through a Bedouin area?

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

4. What types of trees surrounded crude structures at the edge of the Western desert?

5. How old was the man who was criticized for going to find a runaway second wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did patrons do for clients?

2. How did people greet the birth of a girl?

3. What questions and doubts do anthropologists deal with when doing field work?

4. What type of living quarters would newly married couples have in the past and when Lila lived among the Awlad 'Ali?

5. What Bedouin story was told to show that the Egyptians lack nobility of origin?

6. How did Nafla resist an unwanted marriage when she was fourteen?

7. How were brides carried from her natal home in the past and when Lila lived with the Awlad 'Ali?

8. Why did Lila go to Cairo every few weeks during the first few months she lived with the Awlad 'Ali?

9. What was the assumption in Egypt about nomadism and semi-nomadism?

10. Under what circumstances could a woman kill an animal?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 894 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample