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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mernissi say she wanted to learn from Aunt Habiba?
(a) How to buy the best cuts of meat in the market.
(b) How to talk in the night.
(c) How to make dresses.
(d) How to embroider.

2. What was Lalla Thor's personality like?
(a) Tender.
(b) Serious, proper, and correct.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Funny and full of pranks.

3. Where did the women on Tazi's farm do the dishes in the summer?
(a) House.
(b) River.
(c) Stream.
(d) Lake.

4. Who was Scheherazade?
(a) Warrior.
(b) Slave.
(c) Gardner.
(d) Storyteller.

5. What were the streets of Medina like when Mernissi was growing up?
(a) Narrow, dark, and serpentine.
(b) Large and straight.
(c) Tree-lined.
(d) Well-lit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Morrocan word "Allemane" mean?

2. Who was Krisha?

3. As a child, who did Mernissi have to wait for in order to go into the courtyard in the morning?

4. What tree was Yaya happy to receive from the women of the harem?

5. How did Mernissi get hurt the first time she tried to escape the harem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the difference between the men and women's gardens on Grandfather Tazi's farm.

2. What did Mernissi's mother say to her daughter about rebelling against her?

3. Why did the women of the farm harem decide to wash the dishes in the river?

4. Why does Mernissi call Aunt Habiba the "high priestess of imagination"?

5. Why did Yasmina and the other co-wives admire Tamou?

6. Describe Aunt Habiba's room.

7. What did Fatima Mernissi do as a child while she waited for her mother to wake up each morning?

8. Describe Zin's physical appearance.

9. What was life like for Mernissi in the upstairs quarters of her home?

10. What did Chama enjoy doing?

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