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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word does Indar say kept his spirits high when he first arrived in London?
(a) "University" seemed like a magic word, and Indar thought a magic life awaited him.
(b) "Opportunity" was Indar's magic word in London.
(c) "Career" was the magic word that drove him to study hard.
(d) "Education" was the word that meant the most to him.

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

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

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

6. Why is Ferdinand leaving the Domain?
(a) Ferdinand is going back to live with Zabeth.
(b) Ferdinand is leaving for a cadetship at the capital.
(c) Ferdinand has an incurable illness.
(d) Ferdinand has flunked out.

7. What causes Indar to become depressed?
(a) He cannot persuade Yvette to divorce Raymond.
(b) He is having to take on more classes at the Domain.
(c) Salim does not visit him any more.
(d) His time at the Domain is coming to an end.

8. How has Salim's attitude about Indar changed?
(a) He used to envy Indar's style, now he thinks Indar is tasteless.
(b) He used to like talking with Indar, now he avoids him.
(c) He used to envy Indar, now he feels protective of him.
(d) He used to like Indar, now he mistrusts him.

9. What does Salim notice when he gets out of the country?
(a) In the Capital, everyone is as afraid as they are in the town.
(b) In New York, the people know nothing about Africa.
(c) In London, the streets are crowded and filled with stalls, booths, kiosks, and grocery stores all run by foreigners like himself.
(d) In Canada ,the people are friendly and outgoing.

10. What becomes routine for Salim?
(a) Afternoons with Yvette, dinner with Yvette and Raymond, and nights with Yvette.
(b) Writing love note to Yvette.
(c) Sleeping with Yvette every time Raymond goes to the capital.
(d) Seeing Yvette every Tuesday and thursday.

11. What does Yvette tell Salim about Indar?
(a) That he plans on going to America
(b) He had become an encumbrance that became a habit.
(c) That he bored her to tears
(d) That he needs someone to think for him

12. What do Salim and Yvette enjoy at the restaurant?
(a) The friendly staff
(b) The paintings on the wall
(c) The air conditioning and the wine
(d) The rich desserts

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

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

15. Why does Salim think Yvette married the much older Raymond?
(a) She must have thought he would be rich.
(b) She must have had an unhappy homelife.
(c) She must have thought he was extraordinary.
(d) She must have been very lonely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Metty takes out the car?

2. Who is the new owner of Salim's store and why did that happen?

3. What is Zabeth's fear for Ferdinand?

4. What is the "Cult of Madonna?"

5. Why was Indar turned down at the Indian High Commission?

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