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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. Where has Salim come from as the story opens?
(a) India
(b) South Africa
(c) The east coast of Africa
(d) The Sudan

2. Who sold him the store he is going to run?
(a) Zabeth
(b) Indar
(c) Nazruddin
(d) Mahesh

3. What do the townspeople speculate about the new complex?
(a) That it will be a large hospital.
(b) That it will be a model farm and agriculture school.
(c) That it will be a munitions factory.
(d) That it will be the President's winter palace.

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

5. What does Father Huismans think about the future of Africa?
(a) That it will soon return to its primative ways
(b) That it will never progress
(c) That modern civilization is coming
(d) That it will become united into one continental country

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the villagers do that becomes a threat to the town?

2. What is Indar doing in the town?

3. What venture does Mahesh undertake that worries Salim?

4. Why do people like to go to the Bigburger?

5. How does Ferdinand react to the army coming to town?

(see the answer key)

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