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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Salim released from detention to fly back to his home?
(a) He will be interrogated when he gets back to the town.
(b) Ferdinand comes to his rescue.
(c) The official keeping Salim has held up the flight and gets reprimanded.
(d) His papers are all in order.

2. What happens after the Youth Guard is disbanded?
(a) The young men become bandits.
(b) The President's army moves in.
(c) Police and other officials start harassing people.
(d) The Domain is closed to the public.

3. What surprising action does the President take for the town?
(a) He declares martial law in the town.
(b) He waives taxes for the town.
(c) He is disbanding the Youth Guard in Salim's area.
(d) He plans to completely renovate the town.

4. How does Salim reply to Nazruddin?
(a) That he is selling the store and going to London
(b) That his store burned to the ground
(c) That the President has put a freeze on expansion
(d) That things are unstable in the town and country

5. What does Salim learn from Yvette about Raymond's writing?
(a) None of his published books have ever made money.
(b) He has never published a book.
(c) He cannot write in the day time.
(d) He is losing his eyesight so he wants to write as long as he can.

6. What has become of Indar back in Africa?
(a) He has opened a Hindu ashram.
(b) He does the lowest kind of jobs and will not take help.
(c) He has gone into hiding.
(d) He is imprisoned by the President.

7. What happens when Salim goes to Yvette's house for lunch?
(a) Raymond meets him at the door and turns him away.
(b) There were no other guests invited.
(c) The lunch was cancelled and she forgot to tell him.
(d) Yvette's cook has quit and Yvette doesn't know how to cook.

8. Why do Yvette and Raymond cease being invited to the President's functions?
(a) The President has no more need for Raymond.
(b) Raymond argues with the President's policies.
(c) Raymond kept talking when the President demanded silence.
(d) Yvette refused to sleep with the President.

9. What distresses Salim every time he drives the car?
(a) He has to pay a raod tax to the Police.
(b) He has trouble finding petrol.
(c) He has to show his papers over and over, and they always want money.
(d) He is not allowed to park anywhere.

10. What did one of Indar's lecturers suggest for him?
(a) That he become a diplomat
(b) That he become a public speaker
(c) That he take another degree
(d) That he start his own business in Africa

11. What does Indar say he actually learned at the University.
(a) That he learned nothing
(b) That he learned enough to get a good job
(c) That his education was profitable for him
(d) That he learned how to live successfully in the world

12. As the steamer finally leaves, why is Salim happy?
(a) He no longer has to deal with Ferdinand.
(b) He is standing on the bank with Yvette.
(c) He will have time to spend on his business.
(d) Indar is so happy to be leaving the town.

13. What is Indar's comment about Africa?
(a) Native Africans are less intelligent than the Europeans.
(b) Africa is too tribal to ever form stable governments.
(c) Indar says that Africa is full of refugees who are also first generation intellectuals.
(d) Africa is two thousand years behind the times.

14. What is Maximes?
(a) New regulations everyone is supposed to memorize.
(b) A small book written by the President.
(c) A translation of "The Sayings of Chairman Mao."
(d) Raymond's first published book.

15. What does Indar say his goal is now?
(a) To stay on the lecture circuit and make a fortune.
(b) To write the book that Raymond is incapable of writing.
(c) To give the men hope, to give Africa better news about itself, and to start the true African revolution.
(d) To go into politics and run against the President.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Raymond think it is good that the President's book is so quickly forgotten?

2. What does Salim worry about as he thinks of Yvette?

3. What word does Indar say kept his spirits high when he first arrived in London?

4. Back in Africa, why does Salim feel sympathy for the President?

5. When and where does the affair between Salim and Yvette begin?

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