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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Father Huismans when Salim calls on him?
(a) On one of his trips into the bush
(b) In the room where he keeps his collection of masks.
(c) Outside playing football with the boys
(d) Up on the roof, repairing some damage

3. What does Father Huismans think about the future of Africa?
(a) That modern civilization is coming
(b) That it will become united into one continental country
(c) That it will never progress
(d) That it will soon return to its primative ways

4. Why do other boys from the lycee come to see Salim?
(a) They try to buy Salim's car.
(b) The want Salim to take Ferdinand out of their school.
(c) They want him to send them to America to study.
(d) They are looking for jobs.

5. Why is there no history of the Arabs in the country on the east coast of Africa?
(a) They never wrote anything down.
(b) The Arabs thought histories are unimportant.
(c) The people were illiterate.
(d) All their records were destroyed in the revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salim learn from listening to the BBC?

2. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?

3. How had Nazruddin come into possession of the store?

4. What is the rumor Ferdinand spreads in the town?

5. Why did the slaves on the east coast not desire freedom?

(see the answer key)

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