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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the death of this prominent person prompt Asad to do?
(a) Move his wife and child out of the country.
(b) Run for Prime Minister.
(c) Leave the country.
(d) Sign a paper ensuring his daughter's freedom to choose a husband without family intervention.

2. Shortly afterward, despite his assurances of love, Kareem told Sultana that he intended to do what?
(a) Take a second wife for the purpose of having more children.
(b) Not have sexual relations with her.
(c) Divorce her.
(d) Force her to have more children.

3. In Kareem, Sultana met her future husband and was surprised to find what?
(a) She did not want to marry him.
(b) She already knew him.
(c) She liked him.
(d) She did not like him.

4. Sultana was told a story by one of the nurses about another girl staying in the maternity ward. This girl had been raped by whom?
(a) Visitors to her home.
(b) Strangers.
(c) Several of her brothers.
(d) Servants.

5. Why did Sultana feel this way?
(a) She knew her marriage wouldbe a happy one.
(b) She was worried about getting married.
(c) She had gotten into a fight with Kareem.
(d) She did not want to leave her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cause of this death?

2. How did the nurse react to this story?

3. Why did Sultana seek revenge on her brother?

4. Ali returned from studying in America where he was enjoying what?

5. What did Sultana and Kareem continue to do often in the weeks before the wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sultana react to learning she was to be married?

2. What happened after Sultana suffers a bout of breast cancer?

3. How did Sultana and Sara learn about their futures? What did they learn?

4. Describe the relationship between Kareem and Sultana at the beginning of their marriage.

5. How did the king die?

6. How did Sultana feel in the "Epilogue?" Why did she feel this way?

7. How did Sultana and her mother-in-law finally make up?

8. How did Kareem and Sultana finally make up?

9. How did the country react to the king's death?

10. Where did the couple go for their honeymoon?

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