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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. Which particular gift given to her husband's new bride did the first wife Mabruka resent?
(a) A belt.
(b) A veil.
(c) Western-style jewelry.
(d) A pair of Western-style sandals.

2. What does ghinnawa mean?
(a) Beautiful poem.
(b) Quiet song.
(c) Little song.
(d) Thoughtful poem.

3. In what point of view do they write ghinnawas?
(a) 3rd person.
(b) 1st person limited.
(c) 1st person omniscient.
(d) 2nd person.

4. How long after Fayga's marriage did the household notice the first hints she was unhappy with her marriage?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 4 weeks.

5. During Lila's stay among the Awlad 'Ali, how many ghinnawas did she record?
(a) 450.
(b) 375.
(c) 475.
(d) 520.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Aziza have recurring problems?

2. What was the year when the Haj had his first romance?

3. In a love story in Chapter 8, who killed a girl when she wailed and cried over the death of the boy she loved?

4. How many days did paternal relatives wail and cry at a camp where an old woman died suddenly?

5. How many lines do ghinnawas have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Mabruka refuse to attend the wedding when her husband married a second wife?

3. What is a ghinnawa?

4. How does poetry cloak statements?

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

6. How do reactions to a husband's second marriage vary?

7. In bereavement, how did the Awlad 'Ali express their sentiments?

8. What did Lila mean when she used the word discourse?

9. Why was poetry gradually disappearing from public ceremonial occasions?

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

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