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

2. Who is the slave that Salim's family sends to stay with him?
(a) Mahesh
(b) Ferdinand
(c) Metty
(d) Indar

3. What does Salim explain to Indar after the lecture?
(a) That Ferdinand does not understand the concept of a New Africa
(b) That Ferdinand is an atheist
(c) That Ferdinand likes to stir up trouble
(d) That Ferdinand's mother is a magician

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

5. At the party what does Salim see couples doing?
(a) Drinking
(b) Staying apart
(c) Dancing
(d) Eating

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Indar take Salim after dinner one evening?

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

3. What is the rumor Ferdinand spreads in the town?

4. What emotion goes through Salim now when he sees or thinks about Ferdinand?

5. What is the habit of Mahesh that always seems to fail?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is Father Huismans somewhat naive?

2. Why is Indar edgy after the party?

3. Explain why Zabeth brings Ferdinand to see Salim.

4. Describe the reunion of Salim and Indar.

5. What is the problem that arises over a book?

6. How do Salim and Metty begin to react with Ferdinand?

7. Why does Ferdinand ask the question about African religion?

8. Describe Zabeth's son.

9. Describe Zabeth's business.

10. What is going through Salim's mind as he travels deeper into the interior?

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