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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 ends the budding war?
(a) Pay offs to the villages
(b) Bombs dropped in the bush
(c) Mass executions
(d) Jailing all the village army leaders

2. What does Salim learn about Zabeth's family?
(a) That her family was killed in the revolution
(b) That she is related by blood to everyone in her village
(c) That she has a fifteen or sixteen-year-old son
(d) That she keeps her children hidden in the jungle

3. What request does Ferdinand make of Salim?
(a) He asks Salim to send him to school in America.
(b) He asks Salim to let him work in the store and quit school.
(c) He asks Salim to find him a wife.
(d) He asks Salim to buy him a car.

4. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?
(a) To get away from persecution
(b) To break away from his family
(c) To do Nazruddin a favor
(d) For a chance to study

5. What African artifacts interest Father Huismans the most?
(a) Those that have no religious significance
(b) Those made for African religious purposes
(c) Those that are more modern
(d) Those made of ivory

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had two slave families been with Salim's family?

2. What behavior does Ferdinand go through after coming to the lycee?

3. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?

4. What does Salim learn from listening to the BBC?

5. Who does Salim think about who had been driven on foot along the same road he travels?

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