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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. When did Lila live with the Awlad 'Ali?
(a) October 1978 to May 1980.
(b) March 1978 to November 1980.
(c) January 1976 to March 1978.
(d) April 1981 to June 1983.

2. Where did a youth from the Awlad 'Ali community go to have a serious operation?
(a) Minya.
(b) Aswan.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Cairo.

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

4. From what country did the Awlad 'Ali migrate?
(a) Chad.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Libya.

5. Who helped Lila finally begin to interpret the poems she was hearing?
(a) A Jordanian in Alexandria.
(b) An Egyptian in Alexandria.
(c) A Libyan in Cairo.
(d) A Bedouin in Cairo.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the desert, what animal did they hunt at night?

4. In the Bedouin community where Lila lived, how many times a day did the men try to pray?

5. What form of poetry did the ghinnawas most resemble?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the Bedouin like to honor guests?

5. Why did Bedouin women keep their ties to their kin even after marriage?

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

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

8. How could a woman resist a tyrannical husband?

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

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

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