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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?
(a) That they have the same customs and traditions.
(b) That they are much smarter than the people in his village.
(c) That they are just like the people in his village are.
(d) That they are very different from the people in his village.

2. What was presumed about Mustafa by the group of people the narrator talks to?
(a) That he was happily married.
(b) That he was an intelligent professor.
(c) That he was dead.
(d) That he was a millionaire.

3. Who invited the narrator to lunch as the group left grandfather's house?
(a) Mustafa Sa'eed.
(b) Wad Rayyes.
(c) Bint Mazjoub.
(d) Wad Prayers.

4. What kind of life did the grandfather live?
(a) A comfortable life.
(b) An acetic life.
(c) A rich life.
(d) A tiring life.

5. What is the house of the narrator's grandfather made of?
(a) Palm leaves.
(b) Wood.
(c) Mud.
(d) Brick.

6. What is the name of the river that runs through the village?
(a) Donau.
(b) Nile.
(c) Amazon.
(d) Schelde.

7. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?
(a) His career with the government.
(b) The narrator's career.
(c) His career with the army.
(d) The weather.

8. How many days following their introduction do the narrator and Mustafa have dinner?
(a) In four days.
(b) The next day.
(c) In ten days.
(d) In two days.

9. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he moved.
(b) That he lost his children.
(c) That he drowned.
(d) That he lost his wife.

10. How long did it take Mustafa to learn to write?
(a) Four weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Two days.

11. How many siblings does Mustafa have?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

12. Where did Mustafa first see Isabella Seymour?
(a) At a store.
(b) At school.
(c) At a park.
(d) In a bar.

13. What did this influential man do to Mustafa?
(a) He beat him.
(b) He gave him a gift.
(c) He took him to school.
(d) He offered him tea.

14. How did an influential man once appear before Mustafa?
(a) On horseback.
(b) In a car.
(c) On a bike.
(d) On a mule.

15. Which people occupied the Sudan in the past?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The French.
(c) The English.
(d) The Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the grandfather splurge on?

2. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?

3. What did Mustafa suffer from?

4. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?

5. Who does the narrator visit a month after the conversation on the train?

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