3. What must be done before Firdaus meets El Saadawi?
(a) Money must exchange hands.
(b) Legal paperwork.
(c) Saadawi must beg.
(d) The doctor must convince her.

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

5. What paperwork does Firdaus refuse to sign in Chapter 1?
(a) Bail papers.
(b) Appeals.
(c) Adoption papers.
(d) Divorce papers.

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

7. What is El Saadawi's impression of prison?
(a) Happy.
(b) Scary.
(c) Gloomy.
(d) Boring.

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

9. Where did Firdaus' uncle take her after she graduated?
(a) A concert.
(b) The movies.
(c) The theater.
(d) Paris.

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

11. What does the doctor want Firdus' sentence reduced to in Chapter 1?
(a) Death.
(b) 12 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) Life in prison.

12. In what year does El Saadawi go to prison?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1945,
(d) 1981.

13. How did Firdaus treat her studies at school?
(a) She hardly studied.
(b) She treated school like a joke.
(c) She studied hard.
(d) She skipped classes.

14. Why was El Saadawi fired from her job in the 1970's?
(a) She stole money.
(b) Her refusual to reveal a source.
(c) She had an affair.
(d) Her feminist views.

15. Why does Firdaus' uncle return her to Sheikh Mahmoud?
(a) Sheikh Mahmoud threatened him.
(b) She wanted to return.
(c) All men beat their wives.
(d) She was pregnant.