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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do other boys from the lycee come to see Salim?
(a) The want Salim to take Ferdinand out of their school.
(b) They want him to send them to America to study.
(c) They try to buy Salim's car.
(d) They are looking for jobs.

3. Who was Salim expecting when Metty led Indar into the store?
(a) Some member of the army come to extort money or supplies.
(b) Metty's wife and new baby.
(c) Someone looking for a job or a handout.
(d) Someone about to make a claim on him in the name of family, community, or religion.

4. Who does Salim go to see at the lycee?
(a) Father Huismans
(b) The Belgian clerk
(c) Raymond
(d) Ferdinand

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

6. Fearful of the growth of the town, what happens among the villagers?
(a) The villagers dislike the increased population but do not return to the villages.
(b) They begin to fear it and talk of destroying it rises again.
(c) They are pushed further and further into the outskirts.
(d) The villagers see an opportunity for business.

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

8. What is Indar doing in the town?
(a) He has decided to follow Salim's example.
(b) He is taking over the lycee.
(c) He is a guest lecturer at the Domain.
(d) He is just passing through.

9. Who is Salim's first customer?
(a) Mahesh
(b) Zabeth
(c) Indar
(d) Raymond

10. What does Father Huismans think about the future of Africa?
(a) That it will never progress
(b) That it will soon return to its primative ways
(c) That modern civilization is coming
(d) That it will become united into one continental country

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

12. How long had two slave families been with Salim's family?
(a) From the time Salim was born
(b) Three generations
(c) Over one hundred years
(d) Five years

13. How does Salim find the town when he arrives?
(a) It is beginning to prosper.
(b) The President has put money into the town's recovery.
(c) Many new shops and houses are under construction.
(d) It is more than half destroyed from the revolution.

14. Who does Salim think about who had been driven on foot along the same road he travels?
(a) Arab settlers being forced out
(b) African slaves
(c) Prisoners who built the road
(d) Captured Europeans

15. Why was the wooden ice cream spoon venture foolish?
(a) There was no ice cream.
(b) The spoons were to flimsy.
(c) People preferred ice cream cones.
(d) The finished products were too expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the music playing at the party?

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

3. What is Raymond's connection to the President?

4. What African artifacts interest Father Huismans the most?

5. What is the rumor Ferdinand spreads in the town?

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