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

2. In what way is Salim optimistic about the town?
(a) He thinks he will be able to build his business and sell it.
(b) He thinks it will grow back if the peace holds.
(c) He sees that the youth are being educated.
(d) He sees that it is in a strategic place for development.

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

4. 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 Portuguese word meaning metal
(d) From a French word, mestise, which means of mixed race

5. What does Salim observe about Raymond when he joins the party?
(a) He dyes his hair.
(b) He is unimportant looking.
(c) He is thirty years older than his wife, Yvette.
(d) He is snobbish and does not talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Salim finally meets with Father Huismans, what does he see?

2. Why is the social setting so different for Salim?

3. What do the villagers do that becomes a threat to the town?

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

5. What venture does Mahesh undertake that worries Salim?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain why Zabeth brings Ferdinand to see Salim.

3. In what way is Father Huismans somewhat naive?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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