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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Miss Iqbal treat Firdaus after the night she saw her crying?
(a) Like the other students.
(b) She received special privileges.
(c) With anger.
(d) Kindly.

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

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

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

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

6. What women will El Saadawi meet in the prison?
(a) Only women who murder.
(b) Those who are drug users.
(c) Women who steal.
(d) Those who suffer mental illness.

7. What does the Warden tell El Saadawi in Chapter 1, when she tries to see Firdaus?
(a) She does not want to see her.
(b) Firdaus has some papers for her.
(c) The prison does not like journalists.
(d) Firdaus is already dead.

8. Why did Firdaus' uncle not want to send her to the university?
(a) It was too far away.
(b) It was not accepting female students.
(c) It was expensive.
(d) It was co-ed.

9. What job did El Saadawi hold in 1972?
(a) CEO of MAIN.
(b) Director of General Hospital.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Director of Health Education.

10. Who did Firdaus meet by the river after escaping Bayoumi?
(a) El Sid.
(b) Sarafina Du Pree.
(c) Sharifa Salah el Dine.
(d) Jubli Ma Safi.

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

12. What games did Firdaus play with Mohammadain in in the field?
(a) Bride and Bridegroom.
(b) Tag.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Hide and Go Seek.

13. What did Bayoumi do after Firdaus complained?
(a) Locked her in the flat.
(b) Asked her to leave.
(c) Locked her in a trunk.
(d) Ignored her.

14. What was El Saadawi's response to Firdaus' death?
(a) She is happy.
(b) She does not believe she is dead.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She is scared for her life.

15. In Chapter 2, what did Firdaus promise her cousin?
(a) She would return.
(b) To be her bridesmaid.
(c) To lend her a dress.
(d) To marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Firdaus go to jail?

2. Why is Firdaus' uncle concered about Sheikh Mahmoud?

3. What did Bayoumi offer Firdaus?

4. Why is Firdaus in jail?

5. What does the warden believe about Firdaus?

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