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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 does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?
(a) He can only eat vegetables.
(b) He thinks they are serving dog meat.
(c) His stomach won't tolerate the African food.
(d) He is repulsed by seeing African boys eating caterpillars.

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

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

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

5. When Salim finally meets with Father Huismans, what does he see?
(a) Father Huismans beating a student
(b) A group of new European teachers
(c) An African mask Father Huismans got on his last trip
(d) A place where the roof has fallen in

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zabeth want Salim to do?

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

3. What is Salim's ethnic background?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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