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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 Salim see as the contradiction in Father Huismans?
(a) He professes poverty but he amasses a fortune.
(b) He heads a school but he hates students.
(c) He teaches religion but he has lost his faith.
(d) He likes things African but he does not like Africans.

2. How had Nazruddin come into possession of the store?
(a) The owner sold it cheaply after the revolution.
(b) He was able to get government support.
(c) He had started the store himself.
(d) It was willed to him by an uncle.

3. What does Salim remember as being outside his hometown?
(a) Dense jungles
(b) A large cemetery
(c) Slave stockades
(d) Army barracks

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Salim's childhood friend who is going to England to study?

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

3. What does Ferdinand promise to do but does not do?

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

5. Why do other boys from the lycee come to see Salim?

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