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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Salim remember as being outside his hometown?
(a) Slave stockades
(b) A large cemetery
(c) Army barracks
(d) Dense jungles

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

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

4. What happens to change the relationship between Salim and Metty?
(a) Metty wants to go to the Domain but Salim refuses.
(b) Metty gets lazy and refuses to work hard.
(c) Metty becomes a militant and threatens Salim.
(d) Metty becomes a father and begins taking care of his family.

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

6. What African artifacts interest Father Huismans the most?
(a) Those that have no religious significance
(b) Those made for African religious purposes
(c) Those made of ivory
(d) Those that are more modern

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

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

9. Who is Salim's first customer?
(a) Raymond
(b) Zabeth
(c) Mahesh
(d) Indar

10. Who is the slave that Salim's family sends to stay with him?
(a) Indar
(b) Metty
(c) Mahesh
(d) Ferdinand

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

12. What is Ferdinand's dilemma?
(a) He wants to progress but he does not like to study.
(b) He wants more security than with his parents but the town is insecure too.
(c) He wants to live in the village but he also wants to study.
(d) He hates Salim but his mother won't let him change guardians.

13. What confidence does Indar impart to Salim?
(a) The President is going to replace Raymond at the Domain.
(b) The Domain is going to close for lack of funds.
(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.

14. What does Salim observe about Raymond when he joins the party?
(a) He is unimportant looking.
(b) He is thirty years older than his wife, Yvette.
(c) He dyes his hair.
(d) He is snobbish and does not talk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Indar doing in the town?

2. What was wrong with Mahesh's engraving machine that makes signs?

3. What does the President do at a ruined suburb?

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

5. What does Raymond say he is working on just before he returns to his study?

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