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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Sultana's father often overlook?
(a) Sultana.
(b) Sultana and her sisters.
(c) His first wife's children.
(d) His oldest children.

2. Did Sultana choose to begin wearing a veil and abaaya when she was in Cairo?
(a) At first.
(b) Part of the time.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

3. What did Sultana do to her father's new wife?
(a) She abused her.
(b) She befriended her.
(c) She ignored her.
(d) She teased her.

4. Sultana became ____________ what her father would do to her when he learned what happened.
(a) Happy with.
(b) Afraid of.
(c) Satisfied with.
(d) Unsure of.

5. Why did Nura respond this way?
(a) The police would take care of the two boys.
(b) She may not have been believed.
(c) The child's mother sold her to Ali to be used this way.
(d) Father would not approve of this behavior.

6. Why did Nadia's father choose her punishment?
(a) He felt the damage to the family's reputation was so bad that he had no choice.
(b) He was very angry and not making logical choices.
(c) He felt it was the only way to punish her.
(d) He felt it was the only way to protect the family name.

7. What took place in the middle of the desert as was the tradition in their country?
(a) The family prayed.
(b) Mother was buried in an unmarked grave.
(c) The family built a palace.
(d) Father wasvburied in an unmarked grave.

8. Nura, Sultana's older sister, decided to take Sara and Sultana where?
(a) To the mall.
(b) On a clothes shopping trip.
(c) On a beach vacation.
(d) On a furniture buying trip.

9. What happened when Nadia and Wafa were caught?
(a) They were ignored.
(b) They were arrested.
(c) They were scolded.
(d) They were rewarded.

10. What did Sara's husband say three times in front of two male witnesses?
(a) He was sorry.
(b) He divorced her.
(c) He wanted to marry her.
(d) He loved her.

11. Who did Father marry?
(a) Romana.
(b) Rawhah.
(c) Randa.
(d) Ranya.

12. The brothers decided they would first attempt what?
(a) To poison the king.
(b) To force the king to resign.
(c) To bribe the king.
(d) To reason with the king.

13. How did Ali break his toe?
(a) He kicked Sultana.
(b) Sultana stepped on it.
(c) He tripped.
(d) He was trying to get his headdress away from Sultana.

14. Marci began to tell Sultana what story?
(a) How she learned Arabic.
(b) How she was raised.
(c) How she learned to be a maid.
(d) How she came to Saudi Arabia and what happened to her friend Madeline.

15. Sultana recalled overhearing a meeting between whom?
(a) Her father and mother.
(b) Her mother and her father's other wives.
(c) Her father and his brothers.
(d) Her father and brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sultana's mother managed to convince Sultana's father to allow whom to be educated?

2. Sara ________ all through the wedding preparations.

3. The two friends who founded the group with Sultana, Nadia and Wafa, were participating in acts that do what?

4. Why were Sultana and her mother not allowed to see Sara for this length of time?

5. One afternoon Sultana and Sara returned early from a shopping trip and found Ali and Hadi doing what?

(see the answer keys)

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