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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. In a love story told in Chapter 8, how far was a girl buried from the grave of her love?
(a) About 3 kilometers.
(b) About 2 kilometers.
(c) About 1/2 kilometer.
(d) About a kilometer.

2. How old was the Haj when he had his first romance?
(a) 19.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

3. What was the theme of the first song and poem Fayga shared with Lila?
(a) Dissatisfaction with her husband.
(b) Her unhappiness living in her mother's tent.
(c) Undesirability of polygyny.
(d) The longing to marry another.

4. Of the ghinnawas that Lila recorded when she stayed with the Awlad 'Ali, how many were duplicates?
(a) About 20.
(b) Only a few.
(c) About 10.
(d) Only 7 or 8.

5. With whom did men share poems?
(a) Men who are a generation older than their fathers.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Close kinsmen of their generation or lower status men.
(d) Their uncles.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Awlad 'Ali girls marry?

2. During what occasion did Lila hear men sing in public?

3. How many lines do ghinnawas have?

4. After the senior magnate questioned family members about the sudden death of an old woman, what causes were suggested for her death?

5. When a girl of about seventeen died, who did her family blame?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the youngest adult man in the group of agnatic kinsmen where Lila did her fieldwork killed?

2. Why did Mabruka refuse to attend the wedding when her husband married a second wife?

3. What was Aziza's story?

4. How are ghinnawas linked to romantic love?

5. What is a ghinnawa?

6. When were ghinnawas sung at weddings?

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

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

9. What was Mabruka's response when she was accused of sorcery?

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

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