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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was the wooden ice cream spoon venture foolish?
(a) People preferred ice cream cones.
(b) The finished products were too expensive.
(c) The spoons were to flimsy.
(d) There was no ice cream.

5. Why do people like to go to the Bigburger?
(a) To get inside an air conditioned building where they do not smell the garbage.
(b) There is no place else to go.
(c) Mahesh has young girls working there.
(d) They develop a taste for French fried potatoes.

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

7. What confidence does Indar impart to Salim?
(a) The Domain is going to close for lack of funds.
(b) The Domain is about to become an officer training school for the army.
(c) The President is going to replace Raymond at the Domain.
(d) The President is going his own way and no longer needs Raymond's help.

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

9. Who does Salim think about who had been driven on foot along the same road he travels?
(a) African slaves
(b) Prisoners who built the road
(c) Captured Europeans
(d) Arab settlers being forced out

10. What is the significance of Ferdinand's question about religion?
(a) It shows some of the struggle of socializing men with tribal roots into citizens of a modern state.
(b) It shows that young Africans are looking for a way out of their old religions.
(c) It shows that Ferdinand is thinking of becoming a magician like Zabeth.
(d) It shows that politics and religion will always be at odds.

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

12. 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

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

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

15. What accompanies Salim's paperwork when he goes to get a consignment from customs?
(a) A voucher for free goods from Salim's store
(b) A five hundred franc note
(c) An affadavit from the police
(d) A bodyguard

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Indar mean when he tells Salim he's where it's at.

2. Why is Shoba fearful?

3. What is Ferdinand's reaction when Salim wants him to take a book back to the lycee?

4. What does Father Huismans think about the future of Africa?

5. Where has Salim come from as the story opens?

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