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

2. What do the villagers do that becomes a threat to the town?
(a) They form an army and move it into the town.
(b) They demonstrate in the streets every day.
(c) They bring their contageous people to stay in the town.
(d) They begin to build bonfires that threaten to set fire to the town.

3. Why do people like to go to the Bigburger?
(a) There is no place else to go.
(b) To get inside an air conditioned building where they do not smell the garbage.
(c) Mahesh has young girls working there.
(d) They develop a taste for French fried potatoes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to change the relationship between Salim and Metty?

2. When Salim finally meets with Father Huismans, what does he see?

3. What is Salim's ethnic background?

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

5. What is Ferdinand's reaction when Salim wants him to take a book back to the lycee?

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