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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. Why does the Belgium not eat the food in the lycee dining room?
(a) He can only eat vegetables.
(b) He thinks they are serving dog meat.
(c) He is repulsed by seeing African boys eating caterpillars.
(d) His stomach won't tolerate the African food.

2. Why do other boys from the lycee come to see Salim?
(a) They are looking for jobs.
(b) They try to buy Salim's car.
(c) They want him to send them to America to study.
(d) The want Salim to take Ferdinand out of their school.

3. What happens to change the relationship between Salim and Metty?
(a) Metty gets lazy and refuses to work hard.
(b) Metty becomes a father and begins taking care of his family.
(c) Metty wants to go to the Domain but Salim refuses.
(d) Metty becomes a militant and threatens Salim.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Indar doing in the town?

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

3. How are the east coast slaves different from those taken on the west coast of Africa?

4. What comes down the river in a dugout?

5. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Father Huismans is not at the lycee when Salim goes to return the book?

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

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

4. Describe Mahesh and his desire to strike it rich.

5. What is everyone's perception of Raymond?

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

7. Why is Indar edgy after the party?

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

9. Explain the change in the relationship between Salim and Metty.

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

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