View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a love story in Chapter 8, where did a boy and girl in love with each other meet ?

2. In a poem recited about his second wife, what image does Rashid use?

3. How many years before Lila's arrival had a young man been murdered?

4. How many women had the Haj been prevented from marrying because of a family member?

5. Where did Rashid sleep when he assigned blame to someone for his second wife's running away?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What other groups compose and recite ghinnawas?

5. What was Mabruka's response when she was accused of sorcery?

6. What are the costs of arranged marriages?

7. How are ghinnawas linked to romantic love?

8. What was Aziza's story?

9. Why were romances unlikely to result in marriage?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the response to death in everyday language and behavior to the sentiments expressed in poetry and crying.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the image that Lila had of the Bedouins before she began her fieldwork and the reality of what life was really like among the Bedouins. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why "Veiled Sentiments" could be considered an ethnography. Define ethnography in your essay.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 819 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample