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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Modesty and the Poetry of Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a folktale, what did Muhammad buh Sultan send to be watered at the spring where a beautiful girl lived?
(a) A sheep.
(b) A horse.
(c) A camel.
(d) A goat.

2. What popular cultural theme becomes tied up with ghinnawas?
(a) Death of a lover.
(b) A second marriage.
(c) Thwarted love.
(d) Death of a child.

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

4. What German explorer published ghinnawas?
(a) D. E. Eberhardt Reinhold.
(b) J. C. Ewald Falls.
(c) Manfried Siegfried.
(d) David Reinhardt.

5. When did Lila first realize the sensitive nature of the poems recited by the women?
(a) When Lila heard one of these poems at a funeral.
(b) When a shepherd's wife recited one of these poems.
(c) When Lila heard a poem at a wedding.
(d) When Lila heard a poem at a birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what point of view do they write ghinnawas?

2. When Lila did her fieldwork, how many of the five core household heads married paternal first cousins?

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

4. What did the husband of a wife ask her to get rid of after he "left" her for two years?

5. Where did God banish Eve after she ate the fruit?

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