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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Mahesh has young girls working there.
(d) There is no place else to go.

2. Reading some of Raymond's articles, what does Salim conclude?
(a) That Raymond's book will be a best seller
(b) That Raymond will win the Nobel Prize for literature
(c) That Raymond had never visited the places he wrote about
(d) That Raymond is a genius as a writer

3. How does the President manage the war in the town and surrounding area?
(a) He sends mercenaries who shoot two of the army officers.
(b) He moves his capital to the town.
(c) He conscripts the villagers into his own army.
(d) He calls in United Nations peace keepers.

4. What has become of Raymond and Yvette?
(a) They committed suicide.
(b) They were deported to England.
(c) No one knows where they have gone.
(d) They are in prison.

5. What does Ferdinand think about Huismans' museum?
(a) People should not pay to see African artifacts in Africa.
(b) We have masks in our homes, we do not need a museum.
(c) This will preserve our African culture.
(d) Europeans will not want to see it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?

2. What does Indar say about Africans abroad?

3. Why is there no history of the Arabs in the country on the east coast of Africa?

4. What emotion goes through Salim now when he sees or thinks about Ferdinand?

5. Fearful of the growth of the town, what happens among the villagers?

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