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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ferdinand promise to do but does not do?
(a) Help Metty close up the shop
(b) Apologize to Salim
(c) Take the book back
(d) Find a parttime job

2. Who does Salim think about who had been driven on foot along the same road he travels?
(a) Captured Europeans
(b) Prisoners who built the road
(c) African slaves
(d) Arab settlers being forced out

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

4. What does Zabeth represent to Salim?
(a) Back woods ignorance
(b) Authentic Africa
(c) Only a chance to make money from her
(d) Inferiority

5. What is the social occasion between Salim, Shoba, and Mahesh?
(a) A party
(b) A church service
(c) A dinner
(d) A concert

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salim remember as being outside his hometown?

2. How does Salim envision the young African boys?

3. Why do other boys from the lycee come to see Salim?

4. What does Salim see as the contradiction in Father Huismans?

5. What do the villagers do that becomes a threat to the town?

(see the answer key)

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