View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Salim goes to Yvette's house for lunch?
(a) The lunch was cancelled and she forgot to tell him.
(b) There were no other guests invited.
(c) Raymond meets him at the door and turns him away.
(d) Yvette's cook has quit and Yvette doesn't know how to cook.

2. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?
(a) He can only eat vegetables.
(b) He is repulsed by seeing African boys eating caterpillars.
(c) His stomach won't tolerate the African food.
(d) He thinks they are serving dog meat.

3. What does Salim think when he is shown the collection of African masks?
(a) That it represents Zabeth's world
(b) That Father Huismans is insane
(c) That the masks are dangerous
(d) That he has no interest in such things

4. What signals the end of the town's boom?
(a) Noiman, a successful Greek businessman, sells out and moves to Australia.
(b) The Domain is closed.
(c) There is a datastrophic fire.
(d) The river changes course after an earthquake.

5. What does Salim learn from listening to the BBC?
(a) That Africans have attacked Arabs on the eastern coast
(b) That an earthquake destroyed his hometown
(c) That a tsunami has struck the east coast
(d) That the Arabs on the east coast have migrated to Egypt

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the hostess Salim meets at the party?

3. Why does Zabeth have a strange odor about her person?

4. What is the rumor Ferdinand spreads in the town?

5. Where is Nazruddin thinking of moving his family?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 333 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample