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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 through 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mernissi say were the two most pleasurable aspects of harem life that she wanted to take with her when she was an adult?
(a) Hamman and the terrace.
(b) Having relatives live with her.
(c) Having clear frontiers in her life.
(d) Eating together.

2. Who was Zin?
(a) Family gardner.
(b) Doorkeeper.
(c) Messina's cousin.
(d) Family cook.

3. What book did Mernissi's mother request that her husband read to her?
(a) A Thousand and One Nights.
(b) Pride and Prejudice.
(c) The Liberation of Women.
(d) Egyptian Political History.

4. What was shape of the house on Grandfather Tazi's farm where the harem lived?
(a) Y-shaped.
(b) U-shaped.
(c) L-shaped.
(d) T-shaped.

5. What did Mernissi have to do every night as a child at sundown when the lights were turned on?
(a) Kiss the grownups hands and say good evening.
(b) Serve tea.
(c) Make sure the lights were on in the stairwells.
(d) Light candles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mernissi choose over playing games with Samir in "Skin Politics"?

2. What did the children like to play hide-and-go-seek in?

3. What did Mernissi want to influence with her magic spells?

4. Who is Fatima Mernissi?

5. What did the teacher Lalla Tam say about having debts?

(see the answer key)

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