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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did Kareem's attitude toward the pilgrimage exasperate Sultana?
2. On the plane trip portion of the holy pilgrimage, what stories did Sultana tell her daughters?
3. In what ways did Sultana hold the king responsible for the plight of the country's forgotten citizens?
4. Who was Sultana, and what was her place in the Saudi royal family?
5. Why did Sultana wonder if her daughter, Amani, and Sara's daughter, Nashwa, were switched at birth?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Amani's family and servants catered to her love of animals.
2. Describe the purification process that faithful Muslims observe before their holy pilgrimage.
3. Describe what happened at the eventful and memorable dinner with Lawand and Sara that Sultana recalled in Chapter 5.
4. When Kareem bumped into an old friend from school name Yousif, he discovered that the man was quite different from the boy he knew. Explain Yousif's opinion of women in Saudi Arabia and describe Kareem's reaction to learning about his old friend's ideas about right and wrong.
5. Explain Maha's relationship with Aisha.
6. In the end, explain what the family decided to do about Sultana and the book and how they treated her.
7. Explain mut'a, the cruel and selfish custom practiced by the depraved father of Maha's friend, Aisha.
8. Describe Kareem's dream about the holy pilgrimage.
9. Explain why Maha went to London and who accompanied her.
10. Describe the London psychiatrist's reaction to Kareem's offer to come work for the family in Saudi Arabia, and how Sultana felt about it.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the conflict that prohibited Jafer and Fayza from being together. What social obstacles did they have to avoid and overcome in order to be together? What did they finally have to do to prove that they would do anything to be together?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the marriage of Sultana's sister, Reema, and her husband, Saleem. What kind of man was Saleem? What kind of woman was Reema? How did their history together possibly indicate the violence that would come when Saleem violently raped her and caused her terrible, lasting injuries?
Essay Topic 3
When the sisters all gathered in the Epilogue to commemorate the memory of their mother, each sister confided in Sultana that their mother had told each of them that she thought Sultana was a thief as a child. What did Sultana do then to confirm the idea that she was still a thief and to make her sisters laugh? What discussion caused the laughter to die down? How would you describe the mood of the women at the end of the book?
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