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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did the slaves on the east coast not desire freedom?
(a) They became part of the family that owned them.
(b) They were paid wages for their work.
(c) They had no place to go.
(d) They had never known anything else.

3. 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.

4. What does the President do at a ruined suburb?
(a) He levels it and makes a park.
(b) He builds a large complex.
(c) He builds a shoe factory.
(d) He builds a new barracks for his army.

5. How does Salim envision the young African boys?
(a) As hopeless boys who cannot be educated
(b) As a repeat of the mpast African mistakes
(c) As the future of a much more stable Africa
(d) As both pround and ashamed of their country

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

7. Who sold him the store he is going to run?
(a) Indar
(b) Mahesh
(c) Nazruddin
(d) Zabeth

8. 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 thinks the teaching there is too conservative.
(c) He wonders where they stand on the arabs in Africa.
(d) He wishes the Domain would offer jobs instead of lectures.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. What do the townspeople speculate about the new complex?
(a) That it will be a munitions factory.
(b) That it will be the President's winter palace.
(c) That it will be a model farm and agriculture school.
(d) That it will be a large hospital.

14. In what way is Salim optimistic about the town?
(a) He thinks it will grow back if the peace holds.
(b) He thinks he will be able to build his business and sell it.
(c) He sees that the youth are being educated.
(d) He sees that it is in a strategic place for development.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Ferdinand react to the army coming to town?

3. What does Ferdinand promise to do but does not do?

4. What is Ferdinand's question at Indar's lecture?

5. Why had the town been destroyed during the war?

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