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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Ayaan in 1990?
(a) 23.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

2. Where did the film produced by Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali air?
(a) American television.
(b) Japanese television.
(c) Dutch television.
(d) British television.

3. In Chapter 8, "Refugees," Ayaan accompanies her cousin to the border to bring back his family and returns from a 3 week journey with over how many people?
(a) 9.
(b) 20.
(c) 14.
(d) 35.

4. Haweya returns and she and Ayaan attend what together in Chapter 6, "Doubt and Defiance"?
(a) Secretarial school.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Culinary school.
(d) Welding school.

5. Where did Ayaan's father return in the beginning of Chapter 9, "Abeh"?
(a) Mogadishu.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Matabaan.
(d) Jeddah.

6. Who was not pleased with the return of Ayaan's father and refused to speak to him in Chapter 9, "Abeh"?
(a) Mahad.
(b) Asha Artan.
(c) Haweya.
(d) Ayeeyo.

7. When was Ayaan Hirsi Ali born?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1969.

8. What is the first western country which Ayaan traveled to while waiting for her visa to Canada?
(a) Holland.
(b) Russia.
(c) Germany.
(d) The U.S.

9. Where did Ayaan and her sister leave their mother when they returned to Somalia in Chapter 6, "Doubt and Defiance"?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Sudan.

10. Ayaan experiences her first kiss in Chapter 6, "Doubt and Defiance," but knows it is doomed, as he is from where?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Finland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Sudan.

11. In Chapter Two, "Under the Talal Tree," Ayaan's family moved out of the city to what countryside village for a short time?
(a) Jeddah.
(b) Mogadishu.
(c) Nairobi.
(d) Matabaan.

12. How long was the film produced by Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 90 minutes.
(c) 25 minutes.
(d) 40 minutes.

13. Who ripped up the marriage certificate to Ayaan's secret marriage to her cousin in Chapter 9, "Abeh"?
(a) Haweya Magen.
(b) Hirsi Magen Isse.
(c) Mahad Magen.
(d) Osman Moussa.

14. At the end of Chapter Two, "Under the Talal Tree," Ayaan's father escapes from prison and makes it where?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Finland.
(c) Holland.
(d) Ethiopia.

15. When she was eight, Hirsi Ali's family left Somalia for what country?
(a) Russia.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Kenya.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hirsi Magan Isse was a part of Somalia's political elite and a leader in what earliest and most influential factions in the Somali Civil War?

2. In Chapter Four, "Weeping Orphans and Widowed Wives," Ayaan attends school with whom?

3. A woman from where sends Ayaan a letter regarding her cousin in Chapter 8, "Refugees"?

4. To what country did Ayaan's family move after leaving Ethiopia in Chapter Four, "Weeping Orphans and Widowed Wives"?

5. Which of Ayaan's siblings did particularly well in school in Chapter 5, "Secret Rendezvous, Sex, and the Scent of Sukumawiki"?

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