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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Salim find the town when he arrives?
(a) Many new shops and houses are under construction.
(b) The President has put money into the town's recovery.
(c) It is more than half destroyed from the revolution.
(d) It is beginning to prosper.

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

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

4. Who is Salim's first customer?
(a) Zabeth
(b) Mahesh
(c) Indar
(d) Raymond

5. What comes down the river in a dugout?
(a) The mutilated body of Father Huismans with a severed head.
(b) Father Huismans arranges for a shipment of masks.
(c) Food and supplies for the lycee.
(d) Barges of rusty military equipment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Salim think when he is shown the collection of African masks?

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

4. What was wrong with Mahesh's engraving machine that makes signs?

5. What begins happening to the town as the area becomes more peaceful?

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