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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 begins happening to the town as the area becomes more peaceful?
(a) There is a flood and the town is all but wiped out.
(b) The townspeople begin cleaning up the town.
(c) Villagers return and many of them stay.
(d) Villagers no longer visit the town.

2. How long had two slave families been with Salim's family?
(a) From the time Salim was born
(b) Three generations
(c) Five years
(d) Over one hundred years

3. Why had the town been destroyed during the war?
(a) Looting for whatever valuables could be found
(b) Resentment against Arabs, Europeans, and Indians
(c) It was falling down anyway.
(d) It was on a direct path of advancing troops.

4. What contraband does one boy leave at Salim's shop?
(a) Some carved ivory
(b) A book that belongs to the lycee
(c) Money gotten on a black market exchange
(d) Gold nuggets

5. What is Salim's ethnic background?
(a) His family from northwest India is considered Arab.
(b) Salim is half Arab and half European.
(c) His family came from the Arabian penninsula.
(d) He is Arab with African blood from his grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What ends the budding war?

3. What does Zabeth want Salim to do?

4. Why is the Belgian clerk upset?

5. How does Salim's Moslem religion differ from pure Arabian religion?

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