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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. How were Sultana's "forgotten" people disadvantaged in Saudi Arabia?

2. What happened after Kareem and Sultana confronted Amani and told her she needed to have passion for humans and not animals?

3. How did Sultana's daughters react to the stories she told them on the plane?

4. What did Maha say was her reason for taking such an item (or items) with her to work?

5. Who was Reema, from Yemen?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the end, explain what the family decided to do about Sultana and the book and how they treated her.

2. Each of Sultana's children had different ideas of a woman's place in the world. Describe their attitude toward women at the time immediately following the family's holy pilgrimage to Makkah.

3. Explain the circumstances of Lawand's life and how she fared.

4. Explain Sultana's conflicting feelings about the effect her book, Princess, had on her family.

5. Describe how Kareem seemed to Sultana to be more modern-thinking and progressive in his attitude toward women.

6. Explain how Sultana felt that the strict segregation of Saudi Arabia affected society.

7. Describe the story Maha wrote while in London.

8. Describe how a poor Yemeni girl named Reema fell into the clutches of Aisha's depraved father and fell victim to the mut'a.

9. Explain the effects that the Gulf War had on the women of Saudi Arabia, and Sultana's daughter, Maha, in particular.

10. Explain why Sultana wondered if her daughter, Amani, was switched at birth with her sister's daughter, Nashwa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Amani learned a terrible secret about her cousin, Majed. What occurred and what were the consequences for the unfortunate woman involved? How did his father react to the news? What was his father's greatest concern about the situation?

Essay Topic 2

Many of the women Sultana knew wished that they could divorce their husbands. Explain how divorce worked in Saudi Arabia. What different rules about divorce applied to men and women? What consequences of divorce were there for men and for women?

Essay Topic 3

Prior to leaving on a holy pilgrimage, Muslims are required to go through a process of cleansing and purification called Ihram.

Part 1) Explain the various aspects of Ihram and the cleaning or purification value of each.

Part 2) Describe Sultana's struggle with the processes of Ihram. Why did she have so much trouble?

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