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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Moving deeper into Africa, what crosses Salim's mind?
(a) He fears he did not bring enough supplies.
(b) He debates turning around and going back to the coast.
(c) He wonders if he had made a mistake.
(d) He questions whether he knows how to run a store.

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

4. Who sold him the store he is going to run?
(a) Mahesh
(b) Indar
(c) Nazruddin
(d) Zabeth

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Salim's first customer?

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

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

5. What is Ferdinand's reaction when Salim wants him to take a book back to the lycee?

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