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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, pages 42-54.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it impossible for all single women to know?
(a) How to kill.
(b) How to marry.
(c) All the women in magazines.
(d) All the men in magazines.

2. How did Firdaus manage her life at the Sheikh Mahmoud and her uncle's homes?
(a) Fear of gossip.
(b) She carried a gun.
(c) Threats on her life.
(d) She focused on school.

3. What did Firdaus see at the place her uncle takes her after graduation?
(a) Women dancing.
(b) The Eiffel Tower.
(c) War.
(d) Murder.

4. What did Firdaus' father do if a male child died?
(a) Beat his wife.
(b) Cried.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Ate bread.

5. How did Firdaus feel when she entered her uncle's house for the first time?
(a) Like she was dying.
(b) Like she was being born a second time.
(c) Scared.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Firdaus' uncle return her to Sheikh Mahmoud?

2. What did Sheikh Mahmoud do to Firdaus when she threw food away?

3. In what year does El Saadawi go to prison?

4. What job did Firdaus' father hold?

5. How did Firdaus hide her fears?

(see the answer key)

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