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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of Ferdinand's question about religion?
(a) It shows that Ferdinand is thinking of becoming a magician like Zabeth.
(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 politics and religion will always be at odds.

2. At the party what does Salim see couples doing?
(a) Drinking
(b) Dancing
(c) Eating
(d) Staying apart

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

4. What emotion goes through Salim now when he sees or thinks about Ferdinand?
(a) He is envious of Ferdinand's possibility of getting into positions of power and control.
(b) He is surprised that Ferdinand has not dropped out.
(c) He fears Ferdinand as a force for graft and corruption.
(d) He is proud that everyone knows he is Ferdinand's guardian.

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

6. 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.

7. What does Ferdinand promise to do but does not do?
(a) Take the book back
(b) Apologize to Salim
(c) Find a parttime job
(d) Help Metty close up the shop

8. Who is the narrator of the story?
(a) Raymond
(b) Salim
(c) Ferdinand
(d) Metty

9. How does the President manage the war in the town and surrounding area?
(a) He moves his capital to the town.
(b) He sends mercenaries who shoot two of the army officers.
(c) He calls in United Nations peace keepers.
(d) He conscripts the villagers into his own army.

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

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

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

13. What is the music playing at the party?
(a) A Joan Baez album
(b) Straus waltzes
(c) The Beetles
(d) The Doors

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

15. What is the difference between Salim and Indar as they walk to the river after the party?
(a) Indar sees the beauty of the place while Salim sees only garbage.
(b) Indar wants to meditate but Salim wants to talk.
(c) Salim is confused, but Indar is sure of himself.
(d) Salim is exhilarated by the evening but Indar is edgy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins happening to the town as the area becomes more peaceful?

2. Why do people like to go to the Bigburger?

3. Where does Father Huismans keep his collection of African artifacts?

4. What contraband does one boy leave at Salim's shop?

5. What is Ferdinand's reaction when Salim wants him to take a book back to the lycee?

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