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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the family's time in Jeddah less enjoyable because of Amani?
(a) She became very ill and the family worried she might die.
(b) She was cruel to the family and scorned them for their wealth and fine things.
(c) She was withdrawn and read the Koran obsessively.
(d) She ran off every night with friends and the family was worried.

2. How did Sultana explain her reaction to seeing the dead men beneath the sheet in Makkah?
(a) She told them she was overly tired and not herself.
(b) She said that she was hysterical with grief.
(c) She described the dream Kareem had.
(d) She explained that God had sent her a message.

3. 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 divorced his wives when they stopped being able to have children.
(c) He sent his wives to live in seclusion in the women's room when he was bored of them.
(d) He married several women at once and then stoned to death the ones who did not conceive within a year.

4. After the family's holy pilgrimage, they wished to return to Riyadh, but what forced them to delay the trip home?
(a) Kareem abandoned the family at their vacation home.
(b) A sandstorm grounded their plane.
(c) Sultana had to help her sister, Sara, on an important errand.
(d) Maha became ill.

5. 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 stood on a mountaintop and told the people that Allah desired that men should govern over women with kindness and love.
(c) The prophet instructed a tribe of men to kill all females born to their family for 10 years.
(d) The prophet spoke to the king in a dream and told him that Islamic women deserved equality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Kareem feel about Sultana's thoughts on Amani's impact on the royal family?

3. In Chapter 1, why did Kareem come home in an angry rush and Sultana feared that he had learned of her book?

4. What shameful secret about her cousin, Majed, did Amani learn and share with Sultana?

5. Why did the family's arrival in London surprise the permanent staff at the family home?

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