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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, pages 11-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of clothes did Firdaus wear?
(a) A sack.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Torn.
(d) Hand-me downs.

2. What is Firdaus' initial impression of El Saadawi?
(a) She hates her.
(b) She cannot wait to meet her.
(c) She does not want to meet her.
(d) She thinks she is a spy.

3. How did Firdaus' mother mutilate her?
(a) She bruises her face.
(b) She cuts off her toe.
(c) Genital mutilation.
(d) She cuts off her hand.

4. What did Firdaus' uncle teach her in Chapter 2?
(a) How to play tennis.
(b) How to make sandwhiches.
(c) How to run.
(d) How to read and write.

5. Why is Firdaus in jail?
(a) Embezzling.
(b) Theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Political crimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Firdaus unlike other inmates?

2. What instructions does Firdaus give El Saadawi at the start of Chapter 2?

3. What does Firdaus do to the pictures of men in magazines?

4. Who can EL Saadawi not stop thinking about in Chapter 1?

5. How does El Saadawi feel when she meets Firdaus for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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