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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sultana and Kareem discover that Maha was taking to work with her at the hospital?
(a) Drugs.
(b) A pistol.
(c) Brass knuckles.
(d) A Bible.

2. What was the purpose of Maha's trip to London in Chapter 3?
(a) To seek mental help.
(b) To study abroad.
(c) To avoid being stoned to death in her country.
(d) To escape the oppression of women.

3. What story about the Prophet Muhammad's attitude toward women did Kareem tell his children?
(a) The prophet wept when he heard of people burying their daughters alive.
(b) The prophet instructed a tribe of men to kill all females born to their family for 10 years.
(c) The prophet spoke to the king in a dream and told him that Islamic women deserved equality.
(d) The prophet stood on a mountaintop and told the people that Allah desired that men should govern over women with kindness and love.

4. When Amani began to invite friends and extended family over for meetings, what was the purpose?
(a) To practice witchcraft secretly.
(b) For prayer.
(c) For planning a revolution.
(d) For discussing ways to look and dress more like Americans.

5. What injustice to women did the depraved father of Maha's friend, Aisha, commit?
(a) He married girls as young as eleven as temporary brides and then unmarried them.
(b) He sent his wives to live in seclusion in the women's room when he was bored of them.
(c) He married several women at once and then stoned to death the ones who did not conceive within a year.
(d) He divorced his wives when they stopped being able to have children.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 6, what did Sultana hint about the future of the child for whom she prayed at the end of the family's pilgrimage?

2. Sultana recalls the sad story of which distant cousin whose plight was described in a Western documentary?

3. How did Fayza's family get her back from Jafer?

4. In the Prologue, why does Sultana study the photo of King Fahd?

5. To whom in London did Maha feel comfortable speaking to, openly?

(see the answer key)

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