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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Indar mean when he tells Salim he's where it's at.
(a) Where the new revolution will start.
(b) Where everything will come to an end.
(c) Where these is the peace of obscurity.
(d) Where big things are happening.

2. Where does Father Huismans keep his collection of African artifacts?
(a) In his private quarters
(b) In an extra dormitory room of the lycee
(c) In the chapel of the lycee
(d) In the old gun room of the lycee

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

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

5. What is the social occasion between Salim, Shoba, and Mahesh?
(a) A dinner
(b) A concert
(c) A church service
(d) A party

6. What is the habit of Mahesh that always seems to fail?
(a) He attempts to get a job teaching.
(b) He attempts to nagivage the river to the ocean.
(c) He tries to go on safari.
(d) He tries new "get rich quick" schemes.

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

8. What does Salim observe when he visits the Domain?
(a) There seems to be an effort to return to the old Africa.
(b) A picture of the President as big as a house.
(c) The students all look worried.
(d) Young African men who have a big, romantic picture of the New Africa.

9. What is the significance of Ferdinand's question about religion?
(a) It shows that politics and religion will always be at odds.
(b) It shows that young Africans are looking for a way out of their old religions.
(c) It shows some of the struggle of socializing men with tribal roots into citizens of a modern state.
(d) It shows that Ferdinand is thinking of becoming a magician like Zabeth.

10. Why does Zabeth have a strange odor about her person?
(a) She has been without soap until Salim reopens the shop.
(b) She runs a slaughterhouse in the village.
(c) It is a trait of her village tribe.
(d) She uses it to keep people away for her protection.

11. What does Zabeth want Salim to do?
(a) Teach Ferdinand the shop business
(b) Be Ferdinand's guardian while he studies at the lycee
(c) Marry her and be a father to Ferdinand
(d) Take Ferdinand as a shop slave

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

13. Why is there no history of the Arabs in the country on the east coast of Africa?
(a) The Arabs thought histories are unimportant.
(b) The people were illiterate.
(c) They never wrote anything down.
(d) All their records were destroyed in the revolution.

14. What comes down the river in a dugout?
(a) Father Huismans arranges for a shipment of masks.
(b) Food and supplies for the lycee.
(c) Barges of rusty military equipment.
(d) The mutilated body of Father Huismans with a severed head.

15. How are the east coast slaves different from those taken on the west coast of Africa?
(a) The east coast slaves were born into slavery.
(b) The east coast slaves were not African.
(c) The east coast slaves were much smaller people.
(d) The east coast slaves were not sent to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ends the budding war?

2. What is Ferdinand's dilemma?

3. What does Salim think when he is shown the collection of African masks?

4. What does Salim say that he and all the guests at the party were doing?

5. Why did the slaves on the east coast not desire freedom?

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