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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Belgian clerk upset?
(a) He is sick and there is no doctor.
(b) He thinks conditions are too difficult to tolerate.
(c) He thinks Father Huismans is stealing from the lycee.
(d) He cannot find his glasses.

2. What request does Ferdinand make of Salim?
(a) He asks Salim to find him a wife.
(b) He asks Salim to buy him a car.
(c) He asks Salim to let him work in the store and quit school.
(d) He asks Salim to send him to school in America.

3. Who does Salim think about who had been driven on foot along the same road he travels?
(a) African slaves
(b) Captured Europeans
(c) Prisoners who built the road
(d) Arab settlers being forced out

4. Who is Salim's first customer?
(a) Zabeth
(b) Mahesh
(c) Indar
(d) Raymond

5. What does Salim say that he and all the guests at the party were doing?
(a) Pretending to be safe
(b) Bragging about their own accomplishments
(c) Trying to understand the Joan Baez songs
(d) Having glum thoughts about the world

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Raymond's connection to the President?

2. What is the social occasion between Salim, Shoba, and Mahesh?

3. What does Father Huismans do almost immediately after the threat of war is over?

4. How does Mahesh finally make it big?

5. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?

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