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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, pages 86-96.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does El Saadawi's contact get access for the author in the prison?
(a) As a guard.
(b) As a friend.
(c) As a psychiatrist.
(d) As a lawyer.

2. What was Ibrahim a chairman of?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A revolutionary group.
(c) A car buisness.
(d) A school.

3. What case studies does El Saadawi study in Egypt?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Education.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Divorce.

4. Why did Firdaus hate men?
(a) They did not pay for services.
(b) She felt they thought they were inferior.
(c) She felt they thought they were superior.
(d) They did not hold the door for her.

5. What happened when Firdaus saw herself in the mirror at her uncle's house?
(a) She fixed her hair.
(b) She laughed.
(c) She screamed.
(d) She began to hate mirrors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Firdaus' co-worker tell her about love?

2. Who did the Uncle's wife want Firdaus to marry in Chapter 2?

3. What type of clothes did Firdaus wear?

4. What did Bayoumi offer Firdaus help in finding?

5. What does the doctor want Firdus' sentence reduced to in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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