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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 has become of Indar back in Africa?
(a) He has gone into hiding.
(b) He does the lowest kind of jobs and will not take help.
(c) He has opened a Hindu ashram.
(d) He is imprisoned by the President.

2. What does Indar say about Africans abroad?
(a) They are like sheep without a shepherd.
(b) They see everything but make no effort to change anything.
(c) They are too shy to mix with the Europeans.
(d) They never think about Africa again.

3. On his trip to the central part of Africa, who stops Salim often for money or supplies?
(a) People wanting to escape
(b) Men with guns
(c) Tribal leaders
(d) Beggars

4. What is Indar's complaint about getting a ticket on the steamer?
(a) His travel agent wanted a bribe to get his ticket.
(b) There were rules, locked doors, and an endless checking of papers.
(c) He is overcharged because he is not African.
(d) The ticket is only on standby.

5. What does Yvette tell Salim about Indar?
(a) That he plans on going to America
(b) He had become an encumbrance that became a habit.
(c) That he needs someone to think for him
(d) That he bored her to tears

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the President manage the war in the town and surrounding area?

2. What condition is the town in after the squatters settle?

3. Who does Salim go to see at the lycee?

4. Where is Nazruddin thinking of moving his family?

5. Where does a friend of Indar's take him?

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