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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator talk about when he returns to the village he grew up in?

2. Who was the public prosecutor at Mustafa's trial?

3. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?

4. How wass the grandfather's house built?

5. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mustafa do after he was released from prison?

2. How does the house of the narrator's grandfather look like?

3. Whose story did the narrator interrupt when arriving at his grandfather's house one day and what was the story about?

4. What did Mustafa want for his sons?

5. What happened to Mustafa when he meets a man on horseback?

6. What else, after the conversation about Western women, was being talked about in grandfather's house the same day?

7. What happened on the train one day, when the narrator works at the Department of Education in Khartoum?

8. What is being said about Western women during a conversation at the grandfather's house?

9. How was Mustafa treated during his time in Cairo?

10. What did the narrator learn on the way back to the village by donkey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Mustafa was a child, a man on horseback appeared. How does this event change Mustafa's life? How did he react to this man? What were the consequences? How did this man influence Mustafa? How was Mustafa different from the other children? Describe the meeting between the man on the horse and Mustafa and relate it to Mustafa's further childhood and adulthood.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book, a lot of people talk about Mustafa to the narrator. Summarize the information the narrator collects about Mustafa. Who does the narrator meet that talks to him about Mustafa? In which circumstances does this happen? What does the narrator learn about Mustafa? What is being said? How does he react to this information? What is said about Mustafa that is contradictory with the narrator's information? Who, of all these people with information, actually met Mustafa in person? Why do you think all these people talk about Mustafa and praise him? How do you think the narrator feels about this?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout "Season of Migration to the North", Europe and the Europeans come up in a lot of conversations. What is being said in the book about Europe? What is the villagers' idea about Europeans? Differentiate what the different characters think or say about Europeans. What is the narrator's response to everybody's thoughts about Europe? What is his experience about Europeans? How does all the information about Europeans in the book relate to your opinions or thoughts about Europe? How would the book have been different if the narrator had not lived in Europe?

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