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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mahesh's behavior while Shoba is gone?
(a) He visits the brothels daily.
(b) He never comes out of his house.
(c) He acts like a grieving son-in-law.
(d) He tries to seduce Yvette.

2. What does Indar say his goal is now?
(a) To write the book that Raymond is incapable of writing.
(b) To go into politics and run against the President.
(c) To give the men hope, to give Africa better news about itself, and to start the true African revolution.
(d) To stay on the lecture circuit and make a fortune.

3. What comes down the river in a dugout?
(a) The mutilated body of Father Huismans with a severed head.
(b) Father Huismans arranges for a shipment of masks.
(c) Food and supplies for the lycee.
(d) Barges of rusty military equipment.

4. What does Indar say about Africans abroad?
(a) They never think about Africa again.
(b) They are too shy to mix with the Europeans.
(c) They are like sheep without a shepherd.
(d) They see everything but make no effort to change anything.

5. What upsets Indar when he sees the fake Hindu decorations at the Indian High Commission?
(a) They are too expensive to put outside a building.
(b) They look in poor repair.
(c) They let their culture become foreign kitsch.
(d) They do not include any Muslim artifacts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why had the town been destroyed during the war?

3. How have Salim's ideas shifted since his affair with Yvette?

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

5. How does Salim see Mahesh as half a man?

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