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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 trhough 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yasmina say was the worst thing for a woman to be cut off from?
(a) Learning to read.
(b) Nature.
(c) Housework.
(d) Social time with the other wives.

2. Who helped Mernissi get permission to go to the movies as a child?
(a) Samir.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Chama.
(d) Her father.

3. What was the name of the well-known and effective djinni exorcist in the Fez region who is described in "Mina, the Rootless"?
(a) Mina.
(b) Lalla Dris
(c) Sidi Belal.
(d) Rahma.

4. What did Mernissi's cousin tell her to do to calm down when she was on the forbidden terrace?
(a) Read a book.
(b) Lie down and look at the sky.
(c) Cry.
(d) Cover her eyes.

5. What place did Mina come from?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Timbuktu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What terrible noise did Mernissi hear when she went to the forbidden terrace?

2. How does Mernissi describe the harem she lived in in Fez?

3. What program did the women of the harem like to listen to on the radio?

4. Whose room was the forbidden terrace above?

5. In what city was Mernissi born?

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