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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. How many client households were in the camp where Lila lived?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. When did Lila first realize the sensitive nature of the poems recited by the women?
(a) When a shepherd's wife recited one of these poems.
(b) When Lila heard a poem at a wedding.
(c) When Lila heard one of these poems at a funeral.
(d) When Lila heard a poem at a birth.

3. When Lila left, how many children did the Haj have?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 21.
(d) 15.

4. In a folktale, what did Muhammad buh Sultan send to be watered at the spring where a beautiful girl lived?
(a) A camel.
(b) A horse.
(c) A sheep.
(d) A goat.

5. What changed the Haj's mother's attitude toward Lila?
(a) Her brother's funeral.
(b) Her daughter's wedding.
(c) Her son's wedding.
(d) Her husband's funeral.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Bedouin ideology, what determined a man's authority?

3. When did the Awlad 'Ali typically consummate a marriage after the wedding?

4. What was the name of the Haj's first wife?

5. What color was the compound where Lila lived with the Awlad 'Ali?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Rashid's brothers want him to do about a runaway second wife?

2. When and why were the Awlad 'Ali given rights to land in the Western desert?

3. How could a woman resist a tyrannical husband?

4. Why were the core families where Lila stayed able to avoid cooperating in government settlement schemes?

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

6. Describe the ritual performed by children to bring rain.

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

8. What did the Awlad 'Ali describe fondly about their lives in the desert?

9. How were Lila's expectations of the Bedouins different from the reality?

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

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