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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 clear difference between Salim and Father Huismans, aside from religion?
(a) Salim knows business but the Father cannot administer the school
(b) Father Huismans is an optimist but Salim is pessimistic.
(c) Salim likes women but Huismans prefers boys
(d) Father Huismans is young but Salim is old

2. What ends the budding war?
(a) Pay offs to the villages
(b) Jailing all the village army leaders
(c) Bombs dropped in the bush
(d) Mass executions

3. Where does Indar take Salim after dinner one evening?
(a) To his apartment in the Domain
(b) To the movies
(c) To a parade of cadets
(d) To a party

4. What do the townspeople speculate about the new complex?
(a) That it will be a large hospital.
(b) That it will be a model farm and agriculture school.
(c) That it will be the President's winter palace.
(d) That it will be a munitions factory.

5. Why do people like to go to the Bigburger?
(a) Mahesh has young girls working there.
(b) To get inside an air conditioned building where they do not smell the garbage.
(c) There is no place else to go.
(d) They develop a taste for French fried potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Salim's ethnic background?

3. Who is Salim's first customer?

4. What does Raymond say he is working on just before he returns to his study?

5. What does Salim observe about Raymond when he joins the party?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Salim think about the slaves on the east coast of Africa?

4. Describe Zabeth's son.

5. Describe Salim's family.

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

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

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

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

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

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