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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 was Marrakech also known as?
(a) The Land of giants.
(b) Land of legends.
(c) City of heat.
(d) Red-walled city.

2. What was the one thing that Mernissi's mother and Lalla Radia, Samir's mother, agreed upon?
(a) Their love of singing.
(b) Their friendship with their mother-in-law.
(c) Their hatred of co-wives.
(d) Their belief in harems.

3. Who was Sis Sussi?
(a) Food vendor.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Rich uncle.
(d) Doorkeeper.

4. Why did Mernissi's father run away from her mother in fear in the final chapter of the book?
(a) He didn't like when she was mad at him.
(b) She threatened to hurt him.
(c) She had a knife and was chasing him.
(d) He didn't like to see her in her beauty treatment masks.

5. What did Mernissi have to study in order to learn how to weave "terrace magic"?
(a) Malika's shoulder movements.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Chama's hand motions.
(d) Love glances from boys across the terrace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ailment does the Moroccan word "hem" refer to?

2. What planet had to appear in the sky on a Friday evening in order to cast a love spell?

3. In "Mina, the Rootless," who did Mernissi say she was having difficulties with during their conversations?

4. What book tells the story of Princess Budar?

5. What does the Moroccan word "tanaqod" mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mernissi become involved with shour, or magic practices?

2. What did Mernissi's mother do when her husband bought her expensive face products from France?

3. Why did the women of the harem believe that they had to look as ugly as possible during their beauty rituals?

4. How did Mina survive being put down a well by her kidnappers as a young child?

5. What did the grownups think that children should know about violence?

6. What did Mina tell Mernissi about the gap between men and women?

7. What did Mernissi like about the way Mina danced?

8. What was Aunt Habiba's rule for the children who attended Sidi Belal's dance?

9. Why did Mernissi like to hide in olive jars?

10. How did Mina help Mernissi get out of the olive jar when she was stuck?

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