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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Raymond say he is working on just before he returns to his study?
(a) A translation of the Bible
(b) The first historical narrative of Africa
(c) A new constitution for the country
(d) A biography of the President

4. How had Nazruddin come into possession of the store?
(a) The owner sold it cheaply after the revolution.
(b) It was willed to him by an uncle.
(c) He had started the store himself.
(d) He was able to get government support.

5. What does Ferdinand promise to do but does not do?
(a) Help Metty close up the shop
(b) Take the book back
(c) Find a parttime job
(d) Apologize to Salim

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Salim's Moslem religion differ from pure Arabian religion?

2. What is Salim's ethnic background?

3. What is the social occasion between Salim, Shoba, and Mahesh?

4. Who is Salim's childhood friend who is going to England to study?

5. What does Father Huismans do almost immediately after the threat of war is over?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Salim observe about the foreigners at the Domain?

2. What happens to stop the impending threat of war in the area surrounding the town?

3. Why does Salim's family send the slave, Metty, to him?

4. Describe Salim's family.

5. Describe Mahesh and his desire to strike it rich.

6. What is Salim's assessment of Father Huismans?

7. Describe Zabeth's son.

8. How do Salim and his friend, Indar, escape the area where their families live?

9. What is the underlying mood of the villagers and what effect does it have on Ferdinand?

10. For what is the President's complex to be used?

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