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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, Chapters Four, Five and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the birds circling indicate?
(a) There is a tribe present.
(b) A fire has been put out.
(c) Something is dead.
(d) Humans have been in that location.

2. What nationality are the soldiers Gabriel is with?
(a) American.
(b) Indian.
(c) African.
(d) English.

3. How does Felix get to Dar-es-Salaam?
(a) Automobile.
(b) Train.
(c) Ship.
(d) Horse.

4. At the end of the novel, what is Walter still obsessed with?
(a) His damaged coffee seeds.
(b) His ruined manuscript.
(c) His lost farmland.
(d) His stolen Decorticator.

5. Who sees Felix off on his journey home?
(a) No one. Felix leaves Africa alone
(b) Liesl.
(c) Wheech-Browning.
(d) Walter and his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What frustrates Walter in the army?

2. What is wrong with the landing of Gabriel's ship in Part Two?

3. What form of transportation does Charis and her lover use leaving the hotel?

4. After playing cards, what does Aristedes do?

5. What is Norman Espie's title?

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