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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 does Amina ask God to forgive her husband for when she helps wash him after he gets home?
(a) His bad temper.
(b) His drinking.
(c) His meanness.
(d) His womanizing.

2. Who suggests that Amina tell Ahmad that she fell down the stairs to explain her broken bone?
(a) Fahmy.
(b) Kamal.
(c) Aisha.
(d) Khadija.

3. Who has been standing at her bedroom window for months yearning for a young police officer that walks by?
(a) Amina.
(b) Khadija.
(c) Haniya.
(d) Aisha.

4. How does Amina react when Fahmy asks her to arrange his marriage to Maryam?
(a) Sad.
(b) Delighted.
(c) Angry.
(d) Afraid.

5. What does Amina see as her sign of dedication for her husband?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Her vigils.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Having children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Yasin not do to forget his mother in Chapter 13?

2. Which of the following things are women not doing inside the mosque in Chapter 27?

3. What does Ahmad apply just before leaving the house with his sons each day?

4. Where does Amina go after leaving Ahmad's home?

5. What is Amina's husband's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Amina help her husband with when he comes home drunk at midnight every night?

2. What does Fahmy do while sitting on a roof with Kamal in Chapter 10?

3. How are Ahmad's actions at a party where he hires Zubayda to sing described?

4. What happens when Amina confesses leaving the house to visit the al-Husayn shrine to Ahmad?

5. How is Ahmad's daily ritual each morning described?

6. How does Amina's sons react when they come to visit her at her mother's house just after her exile?

7. What happens to Amina after her broken collarbone has healed?

8. What is Kamal doing after leaving school in Chapter 8?

9. How does Ahmad react when a matchmaker hints that Mme. Nafusa wanted to be his second wife?

10. How are Ahmad and Mme. Zubayda's interactions described in Chapter 14?

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