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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Salim notice every time he sees Yvette?
(a) She looks tired.
(b) She is never wearing the same dress.
(c) She is always with Indar.
(d) She always has a different hairstyle.

2. How has Salim's attitude about Indar changed?
(a) He used to like talking with Indar, now he avoids him.
(b) He used to envy Indar's style, now he thinks Indar is tasteless.
(c) He used to envy Indar, now he feels protective of him.
(d) He used to like Indar, now he mistrusts him.

3. What is Indar's comment about Africa?
(a) Indar says that Africa is full of refugees who are also first generation intellectuals.
(b) Native Africans are less intelligent than the Europeans.
(c) Africa is two thousand years behind the times.
(d) Africa is too tribal to ever form stable governments.

4. What ends the budding war?
(a) Bombs dropped in the bush
(b) Jailing all the village army leaders
(c) Pay offs to the villages
(d) Mass executions

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Salim think Yvette married the much older Raymond?

2. What did one of Indar's lecturers suggest for him?

3. What is Indar's complaint about getting a ticket on the steamer?

4. Where does Father Huismans keep his collection of African artifacts?

5. How had Nazruddin come into possession of the store?

(see the answer key)

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