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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What values were at the heart of the Awlad 'Ali moral system?
(a) Strength and dignity.
(b) Honor and modesty.
(c) Courage and valor.
(d) Honesty and justice.

2. What were women said to fear?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Birth.
(c) The dark.
(d) Loss.

3. How many wives was a wealthy man reputed to have married in his lifetime?
(a) 52.
(b) 29.
(c) 32.
(d) 47.

4. What word described a Bedouin man's years of youth?
(a) Shekhukha.
(b) Sinn ir-rushd.
(c) Agil.
(d) Shabab.

5. 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?
(a) In the chest.
(b) In the mouth.
(c) In the arm.
(d) In the back.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far did the Western Desert stretch to the Libyan border?

2. What was the Bedouin social system touted to be?

3. What color cummerbund would the women of the Awlad 'Ali wear around their waists?

4. Who helped Lila finally begin to interpret the poems she was hearing?

5. When did Lila first realize the sensitive nature of the poems recited by the women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did clients do for their patrons?

2. How far had some men traveled outside the Awlad 'Ali community?

3. How does a modest woman show virtuous womanhood?

4. Why did Lila's father go with her to the area where the Awlad 'Ali lived?

5. How did the Awlad 'Ali obtain water for their daily needs?

6. Why might a woman have no choice, but to obey her husband?

7. Why did foreigners call taxis in Alexandria "flying coffins"?

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

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

10. What was the difference that a woman might feel during a pregnancy depending on whether she was carrying a boy or a girl?

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