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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What amazes Salim about Raymond?

2. What happens as a backlash against the corruption?

3. What does Shoba do when she returns?

4. How does Salim see Raymond and Yvette after reading Raymond's articles?

5. What distresses Salim every time he drives the car?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Salim's obsession with Yvette.

2. How does Indar's behavior on the steamer show that he is not as sure of himself as he told Salim he was?

3. What is the conclusion Salim draws about the relationship between Yvette and Raymond?

4. What is a clear sign that the President is now taking charge of his own destiny?

5. How does the situation in the town deteriorate after the Youth Guard is disbanded?

6. How does Salim react to Nazruddin's letter from Uganda?

7. Explain who initiates the affair between Salim and Yvette.

8. What encouragement did a woman lecturer give Indar in England?

9. How does Salim begin to compare himself with Mahesh?

10. What is the situation between the President and Raymond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Take the old saying, "It takes one to know one," and compare it to the meeting of Indar and Mahesh and his wife, Shoba. In Chapter 6, Metty recognizes a slave girl when she keeps coming to the store looking for him. Write an essay about how people can spot the faults in others that they have in themselves.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper expressing your feelings about living in a free society as opposed to the picture of life in A BEND IN THE RIVER. Enumerate the things you enjoy that Salim and the people in the town did not. Use the idea of a thirty-year-old man attending his first party where there were women present as one of your points.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on the way Naipaul develops the character of Indar. Start with his early optimism about a European education. Discuss why you think he was never really successful. Explain how Naipaul creates Indar as a person who over values his own importance. Trace his arrival at the Domain with his chance meeting of the American and running into Raymond at the American millionaire's house.

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