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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the narrator while he looked around in the triangular room?
(a) No thoughts went through his head.
(b) He wanted to leave.
(c) He felt hungry.
(d) Many thoughts went through his head.

2. What did the narrator feel when he's done looking around in the triangular room?
(a) That he must find his grandfather.
(b) That he must bring it all to an end.
(c) That he must find Mrs. Robinson.
(d) That he must take everything out of the room.

3. How did the narrator enter the triangular room?
(a) He got help from his sister.
(b) He forced the door.
(c) Mustafa's boys opened the door for him.
(d) With the key.

4. How did the narrator and his driver try to escape the heat of the sun?
(a) By asking around for a good place to hide.
(b) By going to a bar.
(c) By looking for a place in the shade.
(d) By going back in the car.

5. What did Hosna think about getting married again?
(a) She only wanted to get married with a rich guy.
(b) She didn't want another man after Mustafa.
(c) She would like to get married again.
(d) She wanted to get married, but not with Wad.

6. Which war did Mustafa write comments about in the letter to the narrator?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Sudanese War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

7. What was written in a notebook the narrator found in the triangular room?
(a) Mustafa's love story.
(b) Mustafa's finances.
(c) Mustafa's life story.
(d) Mustafa's dreams.

8. Where did the narrator want to go when in the water?
(a) The Northern shore.
(b) To Europe.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) The Southern shore.

9. What did Hosna do when she thought about Mustafa?
(a) She smiled.
(b) She sobbed.
(c) She made food.
(d) She ran away.

10. Why did the narrator and his driver stop by a government car?
(a) Because it was on fire.
(b) Because the occupants requested them to stop.
(c) Because they were too hot.
(d) Because it was disabled.

11. What did the narrator tell his friend Mahjoub about in Khartoum?
(a) The agricultural conference.
(b) The educational conference.
(c) A new university.
(d) A new hospital.

12. Where did the narrator leave for after the ceremony in his village?
(a) Europe.
(b) Khartoum.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Asia.

13. What killed Wad and Hosna?
(a) A knife.
(b) Medicines.
(c) A gun.
(d) A rope.

14. What did the narrator do with the candles in the triangular room?
(a) He puts them out.
(b) He threw them out.
(c) He gave them away.
(d) He lit them.

15. What was the narrator caught in when he couldn't go any further?
(a) A net.
(b) His chair.
(c) The current.
(d) An accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator try to get to where he wants to go at the end of the book?

2. What did the narrator regret not telling Hosna?

3. Where did the narrator go the day after he hears about Wad's marriage plans?

4. What resulted in the death of Hosna, according to the narrator?

5. What did the narrator feel like doing when he leaves Mustafa's house?

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