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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Raymond's connection to the President?
(a) He taught the President in the university in London.
(b) He was a close friend of the Presiden't father.
(c) He tutored him when he was a boy.
(d) He is the brother of the President's white wife.

2. Where is Father Huismans when Salim calls on him?
(a) On one of his trips into the bush
(b) Outside playing football with the boys
(c) In the room where he keeps his collection of masks.
(d) Up on the roof, repairing some damage

3. Why is the Belgian clerk upset?
(a) He cannot find his glasses.
(b) He thinks Father Huismans is stealing from the lycee.
(c) He is sick and there is no doctor.
(d) He thinks conditions are too difficult to tolerate.

4. When Salim finally meets with Father Huismans, what does he see?
(a) Father Huismans beating a student
(b) A group of new European teachers
(c) A place where the roof has fallen in
(d) An African mask Father Huismans got on his last trip

5. What is Salim's ethnic background?
(a) He is Arab with African blood from his grandmother.
(b) His family from northwest India is considered Arab.
(c) Salim is half Arab and half European.
(d) His family came from the Arabian penninsula.

6. How does Mahesh finally make it big?
(a) He finds a gold mine.
(b) He starts a pawn shop.
(c) He opens a Bigburger franchise.
(d) He takes over the lycee after Father Huismans' death.

7. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?
(a) He thinks they are serving dog meat.
(b) His stomach won't tolerate the African food.
(c) He is repulsed by seeing African boys eating caterpillars.
(d) He can only eat vegetables.

8. Moving deeper into Africa, what crosses Salim's mind?
(a) He questions whether he knows how to run a store.
(b) He fears he did not bring enough supplies.
(c) He debates turning around and going back to the coast.
(d) He wonders if he had made a mistake.

9. What is Ferdinand's question at Indar's lecture?
(a) He asks whether a New Africa could include old African religion.
(b) He asks if the New Africa will be united across the continent.
(c) He asks how it could be possible to have a New Africa.
(d) He asks if the New Africa will be a democracy.

10. How had Nazruddin come into possession of the store?
(a) It was willed to him by an uncle.
(b) He had started the store himself.
(c) He was able to get government support.
(d) The owner sold it cheaply after the revolution.

11. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?
(a) To do Nazruddin a favor
(b) For a chance to study
(c) To break away from his family
(d) To get away from persecution

12. What does Salim remember as being outside his hometown?
(a) A large cemetery
(b) Army barracks
(c) Slave stockades
(d) Dense jungles

13. In what way is Salim optimistic about the town?
(a) He thinks he will be able to build his business and sell it.
(b) He sees that the youth are being educated.
(c) He sees that it is in a strategic place for development.
(d) He thinks it will grow back if the peace holds.

14. What confidence does Indar impart to Salim?
(a) The President is going to replace Raymond at the Domain.
(b) The Domain is about to become an officer training school for the army.
(c) The President is going his own way and no longer needs Raymond's help.
(d) The Domain is going to close for lack of funds.

15. What African artifacts interest Father Huismans the most?
(a) Those that have no religious significance
(b) Those made for African religious purposes
(c) Those made of ivory
(d) Those that are more modern

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the music playing at the party?

2. What behavior does Ferdinand go through after coming to the lycee?

3. How are the east coast slaves different from those taken on the west coast of Africa?

4. What do the townspeople speculate about the new complex?

5. Where does Indar take Salim after dinner one evening?

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