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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. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?
(a) He is repulsed by seeing African boys eating caterpillars.
(b) He can only eat vegetables.
(c) His stomach won't tolerate the African food.
(d) He thinks they are serving dog meat.

2. What does Father Huismans think about the future of Africa?
(a) That it will become united into one continental country
(b) That modern civilization is coming
(c) That it will soon return to its primative ways
(d) That it will never progress

3. Why did the slaves on the east coast not desire freedom?
(a) They were paid wages for their work.
(b) They became part of the family that owned them.
(c) They had no place to go.
(d) They had never known anything else.

4. How does Salim find the town when he arrives?
(a) Many new shops and houses are under construction.
(b) It is more than half destroyed from the revolution.
(c) It is beginning to prosper.
(d) The President has put money into the town's recovery.

5. How does the President manage the war in the town and surrounding area?
(a) He calls in United Nations peace keepers.
(b) He moves his capital to the town.
(c) He sends mercenaries who shoot two of the army officers.
(d) He conscripts the villagers into his own army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Father Huismans when Salim calls on him?

2. Fearful of the growth of the town, what happens among the villagers?

3. What is Salim's ethnic background?

4. Why is the Belgian clerk upset?

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

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