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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What request does Ferdinand make of Salim?
(a) He asks Salim to buy him a car.
(b) He asks Salim to find him a wife.
(c) He asks Salim to send him to school in America.
(d) He asks Salim to let him work in the store and quit school.

2. 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.

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

4. How does Ferdinand react to the army coming to town?
(a) He is fearful and wants to return to his village.
(b) He wants to join the army.
(c) He wants to form an opposition force.
(d) He wants to write a book about the villagers.

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

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

7. Why is Shoba fearful?
(a) Mahesh may be conscripted into the army.
(b) Her brothers had vowed to throw acid in her face and kill Mahesh.
(c) She cannot sleep at night for fear of burglars.
(d) Mahesh has been spending a lot of time with a woman.

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

9. What ends the budding war?
(a) Bombs dropped in the bush
(b) Jailing all the village army leaders
(c) Pay offs to the villages
(d) Mass executions

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

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

12. On his trip to the central part of Africa, who stops Salim often for money or supplies?
(a) Beggars
(b) Tribal leaders
(c) People wanting to escape
(d) Men with guns

13. What does Ferdinand think about Huismans' museum?
(a) People should not pay to see African artifacts in Africa.
(b) We have masks in our homes, we do not need a museum.
(c) Europeans will not want to see it.
(d) This will preserve our African culture.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Belgian clerk upset?

2. What does Salim think when he is shown the collection of African masks?

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

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

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

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