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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Father Huismans see himself?
(a) As a European who became African
(b) As the last lucky observer of the old Africa
(c) As a prophet of doom for Africa
(d) As a chronicler of African history

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Father Huismans do almost immediately after the threat of war is over?
(a) He organizes a village relief effort.
(b) He closes the lycee.
(c) He makes another trip to the bush.
(d) He calls for a day of prayer.

8. What is the clear difference between Salim and Father Huismans, aside from religion?
(a) Salim likes women but Huismans prefers boys
(b) Father Huismans is young but Salim is old
(c) Father Huismans is an optimist but Salim is pessimistic.
(d) Salim knows business but the Father cannot administer the school

9. What does Indar lecture about when Salim attends his class?
(a) The economics of gold and ivory
(b) The preservation of wildlife
(c) Parts of Africa he has visited
(d) Life in England

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

11. How does Salim's Moslem religion differ from pure Arabian religion?
(a) It only requires prayer once a day.
(b) It has traces of Hinduism.
(c) It is a religion of traditions from people who do not read Arabic.
(d) It includes Christian traditions.

12. Who are the main customers at Bigburger?
(a) Guests from the hotel which has no restaurant
(b) The villager's army
(c) Travelers from the steamer
(d) Boys from the lycee

13. 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 becomes an African militant.
(d) He decides to get close to Salim.

14. What was wrong with Mahesh's engraving machine that makes signs?
(a) No one needed signs.
(b) It was impossible to assemble.
(c) He could not get the raw materials to make the signs.
(d) The machine was too complicated for him to operate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salim explain to Indar after the lecture?

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

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

4. Who is Salim's first customer?

5. Why is Shoba fearful?

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