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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Yvette and Raymond cease being invited to the President's functions?
(a) Raymond kept talking when the President demanded silence.
(b) The President has no more need for Raymond.
(c) Raymond argues with the President's policies.
(d) Yvette refused to sleep with the President.

2. Why is the Belgian clerk upset?
(a) He cannot find his glasses.
(b) He thinks Father Huismans is stealing from the lycee.
(c) He thinks conditions are too difficult to tolerate.
(d) He is sick and there is no doctor.

3. In what way is Raymond like Salim's family?
(a) They cannot be persuaded to change their ideas on anything.
(b) They have no respect for the powerful.
(c) They never understand what is happening around them.
(d) They deny the danger around them and are unable to move before it strikes.

4. What emotion goes through Salim now when he sees or thinks about Ferdinand?
(a) He is proud that everyone knows he is Ferdinand's guardian.
(b) He fears Ferdinand as a force for graft and corruption.
(c) He is envious of Ferdinand's possibility of getting into positions of power and control.
(d) He is surprised that Ferdinand has not dropped out.

5. Where is Nazruddin thinking of moving his family?
(a) Spain
(b) The USA
(c) Brazil
(d) Canada

Short Answer Questions

1. What did one of Indar's lecturers suggest for him?

2. What word does Indar say kept his spirits high when he first arrived in London?

3. Who is Salim's first customer?

4. What comes down the river in a dugout?

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

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