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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news of Reema did the family learn when they arrived in Monaco?
(a) She had stolen money and escaped from her abusive husband.
(b) she was suspected of cheating on her husband.
(c) She had been raped while out shopping.
(d) She had been brutally attacked by her husband.

2. How did the story of Reema's situation leave Sultana feeling?
(a) Hopeful and excited.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Angry and ready to fight.
(d) Downcast and disillusioned.

3. To where did Jafer and Fayza flee together?
(a) Australia.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Italy.

4. Where did Jafer and Fayza finally meet in person to start their affair?
(a) At a mosque.
(b) In a private conference room at Kareem's law firm.
(c) In a public market.
(d) At Abdullah's house.

5. What vow did Sultana make to herself as she fell asleep after dealing with Fatma's problem?
(a) She was going to purify and cleanse herself to make things right with God.
(b) She would fight against female circumcision.
(c) She would make sure that none of her servants' families were starving while she had so much.
(d) She would never again let Kareem ruin another innocent life.

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

7. How did Sultana describe Reema's appearance and demeanor?
(a) Not a single attractive feature, but caring and cheerful.
(b) Ugly inside and out.
(c) Exceptionally beautiful, but very cruel.
(d) Very thin and ugly, but shy and sweet.

8. What mission did Amani undertake with the family's staff of servants?
(a) To reunite them with the families they supported in other countries.
(b) To get them all higher education by hiring tutors.
(c) To convert them all into proper Muslims.
(d) To dispose of the family's jewels and riches by paying them to destroy or steal the family's property.

9. Why did the family servant, Fatma, begin wailing and praying while she prepared the family's supper?
(a) Her granddaughter was to be circumcised that night.
(b) She was worried that Kareem was going to fire her the next day.
(c) She knew Sultana's secret and it was tearing her up inside.
(d) Her family in Cairo was starving and she was powerless to help them.

10. Why did Abdullah's best friend, Jafer, and a woman named Fayza have to elope to be together?
(a) Their families had hated eachother for generations.
(b) They were from different social classes.
(c) Jafer was significantly younger than Fayza.
(d) They were cousins.

11. Why did Sultana believe that Amani's upbringing was the reason for the changes in her behavior?
(a) She was not given enough religious instruction.
(b) She was exposed to the Western lifestyle at too young of an age.
(c) She grew up too wealthy and never learned the value of anything.
(d) She grew up too poor and put too much value on worthless things.

12. How did Sultana explain divorce in Saudi Arabia?
(a) As impossible for women to attain.
(b) As a means of oppressing women.
(c) As the only way that men and women become equal.
(d) As a woman's only chance at a good life.

13. What happened between Sultana and Kareem when she returned home with Fatma?
(a) Kareem begged her to forgive him for his foolishness.
(b) They got in an argument that almost got physical.
(c) They agreed that they must fire Fatma the next day.
(d) Sultana demanded that Kareem take her side and help Fatma.

14. What warning did Fatma share with Sultana because of a dream she had?
(a) That Sultana must pack immediately and leave Cairo to be safe.
(b) That Kareem was a bad man and she must be watchful and wary of him.
(c) That Sultana must cool her anger over women's issues or face great unhappiness.
(d) That her daughter, Amani, was becoming an extremist religious terrorist.

15. Who was Reema?
(a) Sultana's middle sister.
(b) Sultana's oldest daughter.
(c) Kareem's mother.
(d) Kareem's new wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Kareem feel about what Abdullah did with the additional item/s he took from the family safe?

2. What else did the family learn that Abdullah took from the family safe?

3. How did Jafer and Fayza communicate before meeting in person to begin their affair?

4. How was Sultana's upbringing different from those of her children?

5. How did Reema look when Sultana and her sisters came to visit her?

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