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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 is Salim's ethnic background?
(a) His family from northwest India is considered Arab.
(b) He is Arab with African blood from his grandmother.
(c) His family came from the Arabian penninsula.
(d) Salim is half Arab and half European.

2. How does Salim envision the young African boys?
(a) As the future of a much more stable Africa
(b) As hopeless boys who cannot be educated
(c) As a repeat of the mpast African mistakes
(d) As both pround and ashamed of their country

3. What does Salim learn about Zabeth's family?
(a) That she keeps her children hidden in the jungle
(b) That she is related by blood to everyone in her village
(c) That she has a fifteen or sixteen-year-old son
(d) That her family was killed in the revolution

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

5. On his trip to the central part of Africa, who stops Salim often for money or supplies?
(a) People wanting to escape
(b) Beggars
(c) Tribal leaders
(d) Men with guns

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Father Huismans keep his collection of African artifacts?

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

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

4. What does Zabeth want Salim to do?

5. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?

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