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

2. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?
(a) For a chance to study
(b) To get away from persecution
(c) To do Nazruddin a favor
(d) To break away from his family

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

4. Where has Salim come from as the story opens?
(a) South Africa
(b) India
(c) The east coast of Africa
(d) The Sudan

5. How does Salim's Moslem religion differ from pure Arabian religion?
(a) It is a religion of traditions from people who do not read Arabic.
(b) It has traces of Hinduism.
(c) It only requires prayer once a day.
(d) It includes Christian traditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What contraband does one boy leave at Salim's shop?

2. In what way is Salim optimistic about the town?

3. How does Salim envision the young African boys?

4. Why does Zabeth have a strange odor about her person?

5. Who sold him the store he is going to run?

(see the answer key)

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