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

2. Where has Salim come from as the story opens?
(a) The Sudan
(b) India
(c) South Africa
(d) The east coast of Africa

3. What does Father Huismans do almost immediately after the threat of war is over?
(a) He calls for a day of prayer.
(b) He organizes a village relief effort.
(c) He makes another trip to the bush.
(d) He closes the lycee.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Mahesh finally make it big?

3. Who is Salim's childhood friend who is going to England to study?

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

5. How does Salim envision the young African boys?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is everyone's perception of Raymond?

3. Explain why Zabeth brings Ferdinand to see Salim.

4. What makes the trip longer and more complicated?

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

6. Describe the reunion of Salim and Indar.

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

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

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

10. How does Ferdinand become a burden on Salim?

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