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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 116-133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason for his visit did the narrator give his mother?
(a) The boys.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) Hosna.
(d) His mother.

2. When were rooms added to the grandfather's house?
(a) When needed or when extra money was available.
(b) When other rooms were destroyed.
(c) Only when needed.
(d) Only when extra money was available.

3. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he lost his children.
(b) That he lost his wife.
(c) That he moved.
(d) That he drowned.

4. What was the name of the college Mustafa went to in the Sudan?
(a) Graham Collage.
(b) Khartoum Collage.
(c) Oxford Collage.
(d) Gordon Collage.

5. Who does the narrator visit a month after the conversation on the train?
(a) Some people from the University in Cairo.
(b) Some people from the Department of Education.
(c) Some people from the University in Khartoum.
(d) Some people from the Department of Agriculture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?

2. How long ago did he leave the village the last time?

3. How wass the grandfather's house built?

4. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?

5. What did the grandfather splurge on?

(see the answer key)

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