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The Red Tent

Anita Diamant

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1. What is the woman's name that inspires Rachel to become a midwife?

(A) Werenro

(B) Meryt

(D) Ruti

2. What is Jacob's twin brother's name?

(A) Esau

(B) Beor

(D) Dan

3. How many brothers does Dinah have?

(A) Seven

(B) Ten

(D) Thirteen

4. When do women visit the red tent?

(A) Holidays

(B) Friday–Sunday

(D) When menstruating or giving birth

5. Which is a signature midwife tool?

(A) Curved knife

(B) Bricks

(D) Painted figurines

6. Which sister is the most spiritual and the most attached to her gods?

(A) Leah

(B) Zilpah

(D) Bilhah

7. Which is not one of Laban's children?

(A) Dan

(B) Beor

(D) Kemuel

8. Who does Dinah play with most as she grows up?

(A) Judah

(B) Bilhah

(D) Dan

9. Which of Dinah's brothers does she consider the cruelest?

(A) Simon and Levi

(B) Issa and Tali

(D) Joseph

10. Why does Jacob take his family away from Laban and their home?

(A) He wants to leave Laban's lands and return to his own people

(B) He receives a letter from his brother

(D) His wives insist

11. What happens to Jacob along the journey to Canaan?

(A) He is injured in a cart accident

(B) He is attacked alone at night by demon angels

(D) He loses valuable animals

12. Who is Rebecca?

(A) A famous midwife

(B) Dinah's grandmother and a well-known oracle

(D) Shalem's mother

13. What happens to Werenro?

(A) She runs away from Mamre

(B) She is beaten and raped by bandits

(D) She adopts Dinah

14. When happens at Dinah's first menstruation?

(A) She is forced to sleep outside the tent for three nights

(B) Her mothers hold an elaborate ceremony and open her womb

(D) She becomes pregnant

15. What happens to Tabea?

(A) She marries one of Dinah's brothers

(B) She is banished by Rebecca and disappears

(D) She becomes a midwife with Dinah

16. How does Dinah meet Shalem?

(A) Attending the birth of his father's concubine

(B) At the market in Shechem

(D) On a visit with her brother

17. What is the name of the woman who delivers Dinah's son and becomes her closest friend?

(A) Werenro

(B) Meryt

(D) Re-nefer

18. Where does Dinah first meet Benia?

(A) At Nakht-re's house

(B) Attending a birth

(D) In her garden

19. How does Dinah recognize Werenro when they are reunited?

(A) Her hair

(B) Her bag

(D) Her song

20. How do Dinah and Benia end up together?

(A) She moves in with Meryt and her son's family in the same town

(B) He writes her letters and asks her to come live with him

(D) Re-mose urges her to take a husband

21. How does Dinah learn that Joseph is alive and vizier to the king?

(A) He sends her a letter

(B) Meryt goes to work for him

(D) She delivers his wife's baby

22. Who recognizes her when she goes with Joseph to see Jacob?

(A) Simon

(B) Benjamin

(D) Judah

23. What does Leah leave her?

(A) A ring

(B) Her spindle

(D) Her copper bracelets

24. How many children does Dinah have?

(A) Four

(B) One

(D) Two

25. Why does Dinah tell her story?

(A) As an act of revenge on Jacob's house

(B) Because she made a promise to Joseph

(D) To repent

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