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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Honor and Poetic Vulnerability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Adam and Eve meet again after God banished them?
(a) Mt. Nablus.
(b) Mt. Gilboa.
(c) Mt. Petra.
(d) Mt. Arafat.

2. Who helped Lila finally begin to interpret the poems she was hearing?
(a) A Bedouin in Cairo.
(b) A Libyan in Cairo.
(c) A Jordanian in Alexandria.
(d) An Egyptian in Alexandria.

3. When did Lila live with the Awlad 'Ali?
(a) January 1976 to March 1978.
(b) March 1978 to November 1980.
(c) October 1978 to May 1980.
(d) April 1981 to June 1983.

4. What upset Migdim when she came to stay in the household where Lila was living?
(a) That she was not greeted when she arrived.
(b) That she was given no bedding.
(c) That she was shunted from room to room.
(d) That she was given leftovers.

5. In a poem recited about his second wife, what image does Rashid use?
(a) Beating grain.
(b) Drowning in tears.
(c) Cooking with a liquid of tears.
(d) Drowning in sand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose definition did Lila use to define discourse?

2. What types of trees surrounded crude structures at the edge of the Western desert?

3. How was the ghinnawa divisible?

4. What did the Awlad 'Ali believe distinguished them from and made them superior to other peoples?

5. What were two women doing when Lila captured their conversation and songs on tape?

(see the answer key)

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