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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. Who was the person usually most responsible for preventing love matches?
(a) A girl's father.
(b) A boy's paternal uncle.
(c) A girl's paternal first cousin.
(d) A boy's father.

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

3. When a girl of about seventeen died, who did her family blame?
(a) A man who drove by too fast in a jeep.
(b) A man who frightened her by shooting a rifle in the air.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her brother.

4. When an individual wrote a poem about personal experiences, with whom did the writer identify?
(a) Respected ancestors.
(b) Beloved relatives.
(c) Tragic heroes and heroines from the past.
(d) People they respect in the community.

5. Where had Aziza's husband been working when they marry?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Libya.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what tribe was the girl that the Haj loved when he was young?

3. When an old woman suddenly died, what did some suggest her husband had done?

4. What was the only thing that Lila was usually able to tape record?

5. What did many poems explicitly request?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the threat of sexuality to the Bedouin system dealt with?

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

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

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

5. Are ghinnawas a traditional form?

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

7. What was Aziza's story?

8. How are ghinnawas linked to romantic love?

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

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

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