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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Firdaus wonder about Miss Iqbal after the night she saw her crying?
(a) If she hated her.
(b) If she told her uncle.
(c) If she was in love with her.
(d) If she forgot their time together.

2. What did Firdaus try to tell Wafeya about Miss Iqbal?
(a) What happened that night.
(b) That she hit her.
(c) That she is leaving the school
(d) What her age is.

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

4. What was Firdaus' relationship with her mother like?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Hateful.
(c) Distant.
(d) Loving.

5. What did Firdaus want to tell her uncle in Chapter 2?
(a) She wants to go home.
(b) She hates him.
(c) She loved him.
(d) She is dating a boy.

6. How does El Saadawi feel when she meets Firdaus for the first time?
(a) Happy.
(b) Angry.
(c) Sad.
(d) Nervous.

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

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

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

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

11. What did Bayoumi offer Firdaus?
(a) A place to stay.
(b) Gold.
(c) Tea and biscuits.
(d) Money.

12. Who did Firdaus hear her uncle thanking for the marriage arrangement in Chapter 2?
(a) Allah.
(b) Sheikh Mahmoud.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her father.

13. Who introduces El Saadawi to Firdaus?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A friend.
(c) A guard.
(d) A police man.

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

15. Who did the Uncle's wife want Firdaus to marry in Chapter 2?
(a) The wife's uncle.
(b) Her boyfriend.
(c) The neighbor's son.
(d) Her cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did El Saadawi know that was in prison?

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

3. Why did Firdaus' uncle send her to boarding school?

4. How did Firdaus feel about herself in Chapter 2?

5. How does Firdaus feel about her "unknown journey" in Chapter 2?

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