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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Is Salim comfortable with the teaching of the Domain?
(a) He wonders if they are fooling themselves by ignoring the difference between Old and New Africa.
(b) He wonders where they stand on the arabs in Africa.
(c) He wishes the Domain would offer jobs instead of lectures.
(d) He thinks the teaching there is too conservative.

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

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

5. What does Salim think when he is shown the collection of African masks?
(a) That Father Huismans is insane
(b) That he has no interest in such things
(c) That the masks are dangerous
(d) That it represents Zabeth's world

6. 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.

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

8. What behavior does Ferdinand go through after coming to the lycee?
(a) He becomes sullen and tries to run away.
(b) He tries out different personalities.
(c) He decides to get close to Salim.
(d) He becomes an African militant.

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

10. What does Indar say about Raymond?
(a) He is never seen at the Domain.
(b) He is the President's brother-in-law.
(c) He is the President's white man.
(d) He is very wise for one so young,

11. Why do people like to go to the Bigburger?
(a) Mahesh has young girls working there.
(b) They develop a taste for French fried potatoes.
(c) There is no place else to go.
(d) To get inside an air conditioned building where they do not smell the garbage.

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

13. Who is the surprise visitor to Salim's store?
(a) Salim's brother
(b) Zabeth's husband
(c) The President
(d) Indar

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion goes through Salim now when he sees or thinks about Ferdinand?

2. What happens to change the relationship between Salim and Metty?

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

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

5. Where is Father Huismans when Salim calls on him?

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