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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 nickname did foreigners give Alexandrian taxis?
(a) Death wagons.
(b) Speeding coffins.
(c) Death traps.
(d) Flying coffins.

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

3. What was the standard by which status was measured and hierarchy determined in Awlad 'Ali society?
(a) Autonomy or freedom.
(b) Respect.
(c) Courage.
(d) Strength or dignity.

4. What were the client tribes called?
(a) Mutair.
(b) Al-Abbadai.
(c) Mrabtin.
(d) Al-Tarabeen.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What colors were associated with uncleanliness and women?

3. What was a man who needed women called?

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

5. How many wives was a wealthy man reputed to have married in his lifetime?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In the past, what was the relationship between the Awlad 'Ali and the Mrabtin?

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

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

7. What did patrons do for clients?

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

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

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

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