Quiz: The Oud Maker's Daughter

1.According to tradition in the workshop, what were daughters permitted to do?

Multiple choice

بحسب تقاليد الورشة، ما الذي كان مسموحًا للبنات القيام به؟

Carve the rosette and tune the strings

Select and season the timber

Polish and varnish the instruments

Negotiate prices with the customers

2.Layla's brother left the workshop to study engineering abroad.

True or false

غادر أخو ليلى الورشة لدراسة الهندسة في الخارج.

True

False

3.In the story, "renowned" most nearly means:

Vocabulary

في القصة، أقرب معنى لكلمة "renowned" هو:

recently retired from performing

widely known and admired

extremely wealthy and generous

self-taught and unconventional

4."They are rivers, and rivers that stop moving become ______."

Complete the sentence

«إنها أنهار، والأنهار التي تتوقف عن الجريان تستحيل ______».

oceans

fountains

bridges

swamps

5.The visiting performer refused to believe that Layla had made the oud.

True or false

رفض العازف الزائر تصديق أن ليلى هي من صنعت العود.

True

False

6.What does the father's calm question about the soundboard, instead of a reprimand, suggest?

Comprehension

علامَ يدل سؤال الأب الهادئ عن وجه العود بدلًا من التوبيخ؟

He was too tired that evening to argue with his daughter

He was already open to recognising her gift and testing her ear

He wanted to trick her into confessing that she had damaged the instrument

He no longer cared about the future of the workshop

7.What does the sign "Here the old songs learn new voices" ultimately symbolise?

Comprehension

ما الذي ترمز إليه لافتة «هنا تتعلم الأغاني القديمة أصواتًا جديدة»؟

The workshop has switched to manufacturing modern electric instruments

The family has abandoned oud making in favour of singing lessons

Tradition stays alive precisely by welcoming new bearers and fresh hands

Old melodies must be rewritten because audiences have forgotten them

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