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

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

3. Where does Father Huismans keep his collection of African artifacts?
(a) In the chapel of the lycee
(b) In his private quarters
(c) In the old gun room of the lycee
(d) In an extra dormitory room of the lycee

4. Who is the slave that Salim's family sends to stay with him?
(a) Mahesh
(b) Metty
(c) Indar
(d) Ferdinand

5. Who is Salim's childhood friend who is going to England to study?
(a) Metty
(b) Ferdinand
(c) Mahesh
(d) Indar

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?

2. What does Salim learn about Zabeth's family?

3. What does Salim see as the contradiction in Father Huismans?

4. Who is Salim's first customer?

5. How does Salim envision the young African boys?

(see the answer key)

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