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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. Whose definition did Lila use to define discourse?
(a) Baer.
(b) Collier.
(c) Antoun.
(d) Foucault.

2. When Lila has difficulty translating imagery that Makraba used in her poetry about her husband's second marriage, what are the images of? When Lila has difficulty translating imagery that Makraba used in her poetry about her husband's second marriage, what are the images of?
(a) Ships and harbors.
(b) Road and journey.
(c) Predator and prey.
(d) Sleep and death.

3. After the senior magnate questioned family members about the sudden death of an old woman, what causes were suggested for her death?
(a) A stroke.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A broken heart because her son died.
(d) Sadness because her daughter had died.

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

5. How long after Fayga's marriage did the household notice the first hints she was unhappy with her marriage?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of the body was frequently mentioned in ghinnawas?

3. What theme became associated most closely with the ghinnawa?

4. In a love story in Chapter 8, who killed a girl when she wailed and cried over the death of the boy she loved?

5. How would a body be prepared in proper Muslim fashion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a ghinnawa?

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

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

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

5. Why was poetry gradually disappearing from public ceremonial occasions?

6. What are the costs of arranged marriages?

7. What was Aziza's story?

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

9. How is the threat of sexuality to the Bedouin system dealt with?

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

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