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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the countryside in Somalia, and is sometimes used as a descriptive word in the book to explain people who are backwards or not modern nor progressive?
(a) Fatwa.
(b) Tolka.
(c) Miye.
(d) Hajj.

2. When did Ayaan graduate with her master's degree in Chapter 14, "Leaving God"?
(a) April, 2003.
(b) September, 2000.
(c) August, 1999.
(d) June, 2002.

3. In what year was Ayaan's family deported from Saudi Arabia immediately in Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace"?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1965.

4. Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace" starts with the family moving where?
(a) Sudan.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Ethiopia.

5. In Chapter 13, "Leiden," Ayaan is disillusioned by the Somalis and their way of living in Holland, as they do what?
(a) Waste everything and eat expensive food.
(b) Squandor money and treat each other badly.
(c) Buy giant houses and pay others to take care of them.
(d) Wear revealing clothing and drive fast cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ayaan arrive with her mother, brother and sister and become stranded at the airport in Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace"?

2. In what year does Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace" begin?

3. It was January of what year when Ayaan's father told her she was to marry a distant relative in Chapter 9, "Abeh"?

4. Ayaan began working for what political party''s think tank before 9/11 happened in Chapter 14, "Leaving God"?

5. In Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace," Ayaan compares her parents, considering her father more gentle and believing in the spirit of the laws while her mother was stricter and teaching what?

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