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

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

3. Moving deeper into Africa, what crosses Salim's mind?
(a) He questions whether he knows how to run a store.
(b) He debates turning around and going back to the coast.
(c) He fears he did not bring enough supplies.
(d) He wonders if he had made a mistake.

4. What is the social occasion between Salim, Shoba, and Mahesh?
(a) A party
(b) A concert
(c) A church service
(d) A dinner

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salim learn about Zabeth's family?

2. What do the townspeople speculate about the new complex?

3. Why did the slaves on the east coast not desire freedom?

4. Who is the hostess Salim meets at the party?

5. What condition is the town in after the squatters settle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the rumors about the new complex being built near the town.

2. What is Raymond's story about the President as a young man?

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

4. What is the situation at the beginning of the novel?

5. Explain how the reader understands that Salim is inexperienced with women.

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

7. How does Ferdinand become a burden on Salim?

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

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

10. Describe what made Mahesh's wooden spoon venture a failure.

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