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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 does Zabeth want Salim to do?
(a) Be Ferdinand's guardian while he studies at the lycee
(b) Teach Ferdinand the shop business
(c) Take Ferdinand as a shop slave
(d) Marry her and be a father to Ferdinand

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 keeps her children hidden in the jungle
(d) That she has a fifteen or sixteen-year-old son

3. What does Ferdinand promise to do but does not do?
(a) Take the book back
(b) Help Metty close up the shop
(c) Find a parttime job
(d) Apologize to Salim

4. Why does Zabeth have a strange odor about her person?
(a) She runs a slaughterhouse in the village.
(b) She has been without soap until Salim reopens the shop.
(c) She uses it to keep people away for her protection.
(d) It is a trait of her village tribe.

5. What is the rumor Ferdinand spreads in the town?
(a) That Salim is secretly married to Nazruddin's daughter
(b) That Salim is trading on the black market
(c) That Salim is sending him to study in America
(d) That Salim is secretly a millionaire

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Salim find the town when he arrives?

2. Why is there no history of the Arabs in the country on the east coast of Africa?

3. Who is the slave that Salim's family sends to stay with him?

4. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?

5. On his trip to the central part of Africa, who stops Salim often for money or supplies?

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