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

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

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

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

6. What condition is the town in after the squatters settle?
(a) The town opens a new opera house.
(b) They buy out all the stores and business booms.
(c) The town spreads out in all directions.
(d) They throw their garbage out and the town begins to stink.

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

8. What does Raymond say he is working on just before he returns to his study?
(a) A translation of the Bible
(b) The first historical narrative of Africa
(c) A new constitution for the country
(d) A biography of the President

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

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

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

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

13. Who is the hostess Salim meets at the party?
(a) Zabeth's sister
(b) Yvette
(c) Shoba
(d) Claudette

14. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?
(a) His stomach won't tolerate the African food.
(b) He can only eat vegetables.
(c) He is repulsed by seeing African boys eating caterpillars.
(d) He thinks they are serving dog meat.

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