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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 did many poems explicitly request?
(a) Tenderness.
(b) Help or care.
(c) Love.
(d) Consideration.

2. When an old woman suddenly died, what did some suggest her husband had done?
(a) Choked her.
(b) Hit her over the head.
(c) Beat her.
(d) Strangled her.

3. What theme became associated most closely with the ghinnawa?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Children.
(c) Death.
(d) Romantic love.

4. What upset Migdim when she came to stay in the household where Lila was living?
(a) That she was not greeted when she arrived.
(b) That she was given leftovers.
(c) That she was shunted from room to room.
(d) That she was given no bedding.

5. In a photograph on page 192, what did women use as a windbreak?
(a) A hubcap.
(b) A board.
(c) Branches.
(d) Old olive oil tin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many ghinnawas did a German explorer publish?

2. What type of personal relationships were of great concern among the Bedouins?

3. In ghinnawas, what did the word 'agl mean to the Bedouin?

4. What did the husband of a wife ask her to get rid of after he "left" her for two years?

5. What accompanied a message Mabruka sends when warning the recipient to beware?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did a niece describe how she found the body of her aunt, after the old woman died suddenly?

2. What two generalizations did Lila make about the range of sentiments expressed in ghinnawas?

3. When did the Awlad 'Ali learn to attribute blame when something happened?

4. With whom are poems shared?

5. How do the Awlad 'Ali present themselves through their poems?

6. Why was Lila rarely able to tape-record anything when she was in the field?

7. What is a ghinnawa?

8. In bereavement, how did the Awlad 'Ali express their sentiments?

9. When were ghinnawas sung at weddings?

10. What did Lila mean when she used the word discourse?

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