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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 theme became associated most closely with the ghinnawa?
(a) Death.
(b) Romantic love.
(c) Children.
(d) Jealousy.

2. What was the theme of the first song and poem Fayga shared with Lila?
(a) Her unhappiness living in her mother's tent.
(b) The longing to marry another.
(c) Dissatisfaction with her husband.
(d) Undesirability of polygyny.

3. In a love story told in Chapter 8, what happened to a woodcutter?
(a) He was blinded.
(b) He cut off his hand.
(c) He sliced his fingers.
(d) He cut off his foot.

4. In a love story told in Chapter 8, how far was a girl buried from the grave of her love?
(a) About 3 kilometers.
(b) About 1/2 kilometer.
(c) About a kilometer.
(d) About 2 kilometers.

5. With whom did men share poems?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Close kinsmen of their generation or lower status men.
(c) Their uncles.
(d) Men who are a generation older than their fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose definition did Lila use to define discourse?

2. Of the ghinnawas that Lila recorded when she stayed with the Awlad 'Ali, how many were duplicates?

3. What primary emotion is featured in ghinnawas?

4. How long after Fayga's marriage did the household notice the first hints she was unhappy with her marriage?

5. What did Mabruka refuse to accept when Rashid married another wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the costs of arranged marriages?

2. How was the youngest adult man in the group of agnatic kinsmen where Lila did her fieldwork killed?

3. What two generalizations did Lila make about the range of sentiments expressed in ghinnawas?

4. For the Awlad 'Ali, how does poetry relate to the past?

5. Why are analogies drawn in poetry between the poet and young children?

6. How does poetry cloak statements?

7. With whom are poems shared?

8. How did a niece describe how she found the body of her aunt, after the old woman died suddenly?

9. What is a ghinnawa?

10. When did the Awlad 'Ali learn to attribute blame when something happened?

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