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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ferdinand promise to do but does not do?
(a) Find a parttime job
(b) Apologize to Salim
(c) Take the book back
(d) Help Metty close up the shop

2. What does Salim learn from listening to the BBC?
(a) That a tsunami has struck the east coast
(b) That Africans have attacked Arabs on the eastern coast
(c) That an earthquake destroyed his hometown
(d) That the Arabs on the east coast have migrated to Egypt

3. What is the habit of Mahesh that always seems to fail?
(a) He tries to go on safari.
(b) He attempts to get a job teaching.
(c) He tries new "get rich quick" schemes.
(d) He attempts to nagivage the river to the ocean.

4. What is the rumor Ferdinand spreads in the town?
(a) That Salim is sending him to study in America
(b) That Salim is trading on the black market
(c) That Salim is secretly a millionaire
(d) That Salim is secretly married to Nazruddin's daughter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salim explain to Indar after the lecture?

2. Why had the town been destroyed during the war?

3. What confidence does Indar impart to Salim?

4. Who is the slave that Salim's family sends to stay with him?

5. At the party what does Salim see couples doing?

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