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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) They develop a taste for French fried potatoes.
(c) Mahesh has young girls working there.
(d) There is no place else to go.

2. What is the rumor Ferdinand spreads in the town?
(a) That Salim is sending him to study in America
(b) That Salim is secretly married to Nazruddin's daughter
(c) That Salim is trading on the black market
(d) That Salim is secretly a millionaire

3. Who is the surprise visitor to Salim's store?
(a) The President
(b) Zabeth's husband
(c) Indar
(d) Salim's brother

4. What is the music playing at the party?
(a) The Beetles
(b) A Joan Baez album
(c) The Doors
(d) Straus waltzes

5. Is Salim comfortable with the teaching of the Domain?
(a) He wonders where they stand on the arabs in Africa.
(b) He wishes the Domain would offer jobs instead of lectures.
(c) He wonders if they are fooling themselves by ignoring the difference between Old and New Africa.
(d) He thinks the teaching there is too conservative.

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

7. What is Indar doing in the town?
(a) He is taking over the lycee.
(b) He has decided to follow Salim's example.
(c) He is just passing through.
(d) He is a guest lecturer at the Domain.

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

9. How does Mahesh finally make it big?
(a) He takes over the lycee after Father Huismans' death.
(b) He starts a pawn shop.
(c) He opens a Bigburger franchise.
(d) He finds a gold mine.

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

11. What does Salim observe when he visits the Domain?
(a) There seems to be an effort to return to the old Africa.
(b) A picture of the President as big as a house.
(c) Young African men who have a big, romantic picture of the New Africa.
(d) The students all look worried.

12. What is the clear difference between Salim and Father Huismans, aside from religion?
(a) Father Huismans is young but Salim is old
(b) Salim knows business but the Father cannot administer the school
(c) Salim likes women but Huismans prefers boys
(d) Father Huismans is an optimist but Salim is pessimistic.

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

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

15. What begins happening to the town as the area becomes more peaceful?
(a) Villagers return and many of them stay.
(b) The townspeople begin cleaning up the town.
(c) Villagers no longer visit the town.
(d) There is a flood and the town is all but wiped out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fearful of the growth of the town, what happens among the villagers?

2. Who does Salim think about who had been driven on foot along the same road he travels?

3. What ends the budding war?

4. What does Salim observe about Raymond when he joins the party?

5. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?

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