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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. What happens after the Youth Guard is disbanded?
(a) The young men become bandits.
(b) The Domain is closed to the public.
(c) Police and other officials start harassing people.
(d) The President's army moves in.

2. Why is the social setting so different for Salim?
(a) He has never been to a party before.
(b) People are dancing but he does not know how.
(c) As an Arab Muslim, he has never attended a party with mixed sexes.
(d) His only association with women has been in the brothels.

3. From where does the name Metty come?
(a) From a French word, mestise, which means of mixed race
(b) From a corruption of the English word, middle
(c) From a Portuguese word meaning metal
(d) From a story about Methuselah, the oldest man

4. What does Salim learn about Zabeth's family?
(a) That she keeps her children hidden in the jungle
(b) That her family was killed in the revolution
(c) That she is related by blood to everyone in her village
(d) That she has a fifteen or sixteen-year-old son

5. What causes Indar to become depressed?
(a) He is having to take on more classes at the Domain.
(b) He cannot persuade Yvette to divorce Raymond.
(c) Salim does not visit him any more.
(d) His time at the Domain is coming to an end.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the habit of Mahesh that always seems to fail?

3. How do the businessmen react to the changes coming about?

4. What does the President do at a ruined suburb?

5. How has Salim's attitude about Indar changed?

(see the answer key)

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