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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. Who did Mernissi go with to the forbidden terrace on her first visit?
(a) Malika.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Aunt Habiba.
(d) Chama.

2. When Chama listened to feminist programs on Radio Cairo, what did she say about her generation of women?
(a) The harem was the safest place for them.
(b) They were being sacrificed.
(c) They needed to learn more about drama.
(d) They were luckier than women in other countries.

3. What did Aunt Habiba tell Samir and Mernissi was the greatest gift that Allah had given them?
(a) Reason.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Determination.

4. What smell did Mernissi's father hate when his wife did her beauty treatments?
(a) Melon.
(b) Henna.
(c) Amber.
(d) Oranges.

5. What did Mernissi want her father to have made for her when she sang nationalist songs for her grandmother?
(a) Small Moroccan flag.
(b) Jeans.
(c) Hat.
(d) Fancy shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mernissi's cousin tell her to do to calm down when she was on the forbidden terrace?

2. What was the name of the well-known and effective djinni exorcist in the Fez region who is described in "Mina, the Rootless"?

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

4. Who said happiness was inconceivable without terraces?

5. What did Aunt Habiba use to get to the forbidden terrace?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Mernissi's mother not allowed to go to literacy classes?

4. What did Mernissi like about the nationalist school she was allowed to attend?

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

6. What was Mernissi's father's attitude about her mother's beauty rituals?

7. How did Lalla Mani prepare her face mask made of dates?

8. Why did Mernissi dislike the third chamber of the hamman?

9. Why was Samir thrown out of the women's hamman?

10. Why did Mina feel optimistic about the future for women?

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