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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 begins happening to the town as the area becomes more peaceful?
(a) The townspeople begin cleaning up the town.
(b) Villagers return and many of them stay.
(c) There is a flood and the town is all but wiped out.
(d) Villagers no longer visit the town.

2. What is Ferdinand's dilemma?
(a) He wants to progress but he does not like to study.
(b) He hates Salim but his mother won't let him change guardians.
(c) He wants more security than with his parents but the town is insecure too.
(d) He wants to live in the village but he also wants to study.

3. What does Salim remember as being outside his hometown?
(a) Slave stockades
(b) Dense jungles
(c) Army barracks
(d) A large cemetery

4. What comes down the river in a dugout?
(a) Father Huismans arranges for a shipment of masks.
(b) The mutilated body of Father Huismans with a severed head.
(c) Barges of rusty military equipment.
(d) Food and supplies for the lycee.

5. From where does the name Metty come?
(a) From a story about Methuselah, the oldest man
(b) From a corruption of the English word, middle
(c) From a French word, mestise, which means of mixed race
(d) From a Portuguese word meaning metal

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Salim's ethnic background?

2. What was wrong with Mahesh's engraving machine that makes signs?

3. What is Ferdinand's question at Indar's lecture?

4. What does Father Huismans think about the future of Africa?

5. What does Salim see as the contradiction in Father Huismans?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Give some details about Father Huismans' hobby.

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

4. How does Ferdinand become a burden on Salim?

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

6. What is happening with the town shortly after Salim arrives?

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

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

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

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

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