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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Sultana tell her children that the Koran says about equality of women?
(a) Women must serve men with joyful hearts.
(b) Men have the great responsibility of protecting and caring for their wives.
(c) Even young boys are to have more rights than their own mothers simply because of their gender.
(d) Men and women are equal in the eyes of God and the prophet.
2. Who was Reema, from Yemen?
(a) Sultana's youngest daughter.
(b) Kareem's second wife.
(c) Maha's forbidden lover.
(d) One of Aisha's father's unfortunate brides.
3. What story about the Prophet Muhammad's attitude toward women did Kareem tell his children?
(a) The prophet stood on a mountaintop and told the people that Allah desired that men should govern over women with kindness and love.
(b) The prophet wept when he heard of people burying their daughters alive.
(c) The prophet spoke to the king in a dream and told him that Islamic women deserved equality.
(d) The prophet instructed a tribe of men to kill all females born to their family for 10 years.
4. What horrible story, that shocked Kareem, did Yousif believe was not a crime?
(a) A man buried alive his unwanted children in the desert.
(b) A man poured scalding water down the throat of his baby daughter to kill her.
(c) A man had seven wives, two of whom were his own daughters.
(d) A man wed teenage virgins, used them for sex and then divorced them instantly when he was bored of them.
5. In the sad story of Sultana's cousin, what memorable act did the woman attempt?
(a) She told her husband she was going shopping and actually fled the country with only a passport and a few posessions.
(b) She contacted the authorities in the United States and begged them to rescue her.
(c) She kidnapped her driver at gunpoint and made him drive her to the airport.
(d) She faked her death and tried to escape the country dressed as a man.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what city did Sultana and her family make the traditional pilgrimage of the Muslim faith?
2. What Western documentary tells the sad story of Sultana's cousin?
3. What specific feelings toward women did Yousif express to Kareem?
4. At age 11, why did Maha curse and swear at her grandfather?
5. What was the purpose of Maha's trip to London in Chapter 3?
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