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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What behavior does Ferdinand go through after coming to the lycee?
(a) He becomes an African militant.
(b) He becomes sullen and tries to run away.
(c) He decides to get close to Salim.
(d) He tries out different personalities.

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

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

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

5. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?
(a) For a chance to study
(b) To get away from persecution
(c) To break away from his family
(d) To do Nazruddin a favor

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

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

8. From where does the name Metty come?
(a) From a Portuguese word meaning metal
(b) From a story about Methuselah, the oldest man
(c) From a corruption of the English word, middle
(d) From a French word, mestise, which means of mixed race

9. What is Salim's ethnic background?
(a) Salim is half Arab and half European.
(b) His family came from the Arabian penninsula.
(c) His family from northwest India is considered Arab.
(d) He is Arab with African blood from his grandmother.

10. How does Salim find the town when he arrives?
(a) It is more than half destroyed from the revolution.
(b) The President has put money into the town's recovery.
(c) Many new shops and houses are under construction.
(d) It is beginning to prosper.

11. What is Ferdinand's reaction when Salim wants him to take a book back to the lycee?
(a) He gets angry and refuses to do it.
(b) He throws the book in the river.
(c) He says it isn't his job.
(d) He wants to read the book first.

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

13. Where does Indar take Salim after dinner one evening?
(a) To a party
(b) To the movies
(c) To a parade of cadets
(d) To his apartment in the Domain

14. Where has Salim come from as the story opens?
(a) The Sudan
(b) The east coast of Africa
(c) India
(d) South Africa

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the surprise visitor to Salim's store?

2. What ends the budding war?

3. Why does Zabeth have a strange odor about her person?

4. What does Salim observe when he visits the Domain?

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

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