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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 hates Salim but his mother won't let him change guardians.
(d) He wants to live in the village but he also wants to study.

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

4. Why is there no history of the Arabs in the country on the east coast of Africa?
(a) The Arabs thought histories are unimportant.
(b) They never wrote anything down.
(c) The people were illiterate.
(d) All their records were destroyed in the revolution.

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

6. How does the President manage the war in the town and surrounding area?
(a) He calls in United Nations peace keepers.
(b) He moves his capital to the town.
(c) He conscripts the villagers into his own army.
(d) He sends mercenaries who shoot two of the army officers.

7. What does Zabeth represent to Salim?
(a) Only a chance to make money from her
(b) Inferiority
(c) Authentic Africa
(d) Back woods ignorance

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

9. Why is Shoba fearful?
(a) She cannot sleep at night for fear of burglars.
(b) Her brothers had vowed to throw acid in her face and kill Mahesh.
(c) Mahesh has been spending a lot of time with a woman.
(d) Mahesh may be conscripted into the army.

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

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

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

13. What does Indar say about Raymond?
(a) He is the President's white man.
(b) He is never seen at the Domain.
(c) He is very wise for one so young,
(d) He is the President's brother-in-law.

14. Why is the social setting so different for Salim?
(a) His only association with women has been in the brothels.
(b) As an Arab Muslim, he has never attended a party with mixed sexes.
(c) He has never been to a party before.
(d) People are dancing but he does not know how.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Father Huismans see himself?

2. Who is the slave that Salim's family sends to stay with him?

3. Moving deeper into Africa, what crosses Salim's mind?

4. What do the villagers do that becomes a threat to the town?

5. How are the east coast slaves different from those taken on the west coast of Africa?

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