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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. How does Mernissi describe "Hanan"?
(a) Spicy food.
(b) Moroccan emotional quality.
(c) Educational program.
(d) Political uprising.

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

3. What was Yaya's favorite color?
(a) Silver.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

4. What did the women's gardens consist of on Grandfather Tazi's farm?
(a) Lots of flowers.
(b) Strange trees, bizarre plants, and animals of all kinds.
(c) Well-kept trees and shrubs.
(d) Neat vegtable gardens.

5. What does Zin mean?
(a) Desire.
(b) Scholarship.
(c) Swiftness.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of jewelry did Yasmina wear that Mernissi liked to play with?

2. What did Yasmina want Mernissa to concentrate on instead of rules and barriers in "The Harem Within"?

3. What kind of clothing did Mernissi wear when she was young?

4. What language did Zin master?

5. What did Krisha's wife not like to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Yasmina's appearance.

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

3. Did Yasmina feel close to her co-wives?

4. How does Mernissi describe the French soldiers who patrolled the streets outside her house?

5. How did the Mernissi harem prepare to go on a picnic in the country?

6. What was Mernissi's mother's reaction when Mernissi wore her head scarf?

7. What part of communal life did Mernissi's mother hate the most?

8. What worried Samir and Mernissi about Hitler?

9. Why did moonlight picnics make Mernissi's mother happy?

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

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