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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. Along with other Muslims, where do the Awlad 'Ali believe children go when they die?
(a) A place between heaven and hell.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Hell.

2. When a girl of about seventeen died, who did her family blame?
(a) A man who frightened her by shooting a rifle in the air.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) A man who drove by too fast in a jeep.
(d) Her brother.

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

4. What emotion about her husband's second marriage did Mabruka's poetry reveal?
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Despair.

5. In a love story in Chapter 8, where did a boy and girl in love with each other meet ?
(a) At the tent of a cousin.
(b) At the tent of an uncle.
(c) At the tent of an old lady.
(d) In the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. In an archetypal love story, where did a boy go to get dates?

2. How many years before Lila's arrival had a young man been murdered?

3. In a love story told in Chapter 8, what happened to a woodcutter?

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

5. Which particular gift given to her husband's new bride did the first wife Mabruka resent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are ghinnawas linked to romantic love?

2. Why wasn't the Haj allowed to marry a girl he loved when he was 17?

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

4. How do reactions to a husband's second marriage vary?

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

6. With whom are poems shared?

7. After hearing so much about the value of hasham, why was Lila shocked to learn about one young woman in the camp?

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

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

10. For the Awlad 'Ali, how does poetry relate to the past?

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