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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Nazruddin in Canada?
(a) Nazruddin was deported as a terrorist.
(b) Nazruddin was swindled in an oil well scheme.
(c) Nazruddin could not buy a business.
(d) Nazruddin's health could not stand the weather.

2. Who was Salim expecting when Metty led Indar into the store?
(a) Someone looking for a job or a handout.
(b) Some member of the army come to extort money or supplies.
(c) Someone about to make a claim on him in the name of family, community, or religion.
(d) Metty's wife and new baby.

3. How does Salim find the town when he arrives?
(a) It is beginning to prosper.
(b) Many new shops and houses are under construction.
(c) The President has put money into the town's recovery.
(d) It is more than half destroyed from the revolution.

4. How does Salim leave the bend in the river?
(a) He stows away on the steamer.
(b) He is on the steamer and there are gunshots in the distance.
(c) Zabeth takes him away in her dugout canoe.
(d) He is smuggled out by friends of Ferdinand's.

5. What is Indar's comment about Africa?
(a) Indar says that Africa is full of refugees who are also first generation intellectuals.
(b) Africa is two thousand years behind the times.
(c) Africa is too tribal to ever form stable governments.
(d) Native Africans are less intelligent than the Europeans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What request does Ferdinand make of Salim?

2. Why is the Belgian clerk upset?

3. How long had two slave families been with Salim's family?

4. What does Zabeth represent to Salim?

5. What does Salim explain to Indar after the lecture?

(see the answer key)

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