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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. What does Zabeth represent to Salim?
(a) Inferiority
(b) Back woods ignorance
(c) Only a chance to make money from her
(d) Authentic Africa

2. What African artifacts interest Father Huismans the most?
(a) Those made of ivory
(b) Those made for African religious purposes
(c) Those that are more modern
(d) Those that have no religious significance

3. What behavior does Ferdinand go through after coming to the lycee?
(a) He tries out different personalities.
(b) He becomes sullen and tries to run away.
(c) He becomes an African militant.
(d) He decides to get close to Salim.

4. What request does Ferdinand make of Salim?
(a) He asks Salim to buy him a car.
(b) He asks Salim to let him work in the store and quit school.
(c) He asks Salim to send him to school in America.
(d) He asks Salim to find him a wife.

5. What is Ferdinand's reaction when Salim wants him to take a book back to the lycee?
(a) He says it isn't his job.
(b) He wants to read the book first.
(c) He gets angry and refuses to do it.
(d) He throws the book in the river.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Father Huismans see himself?

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

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