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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 88-104.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months a year dioesthe narrator spend in the village he grew up in?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

2. What did the villagers begin to build at one point?
(a) An army.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A supermarket.
(d) A school.

3. When was the last time Mustafa saw his mother?
(a) While he was at school abroad.
(b) After he went to school abroad.
(c) When he got married.
(d) Before he went to school abroad.

4. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Four years.

5. What does the narrator talk about when he returns to the village he grew up in?
(a) Mustafa.
(b) A donkey.
(c) His new love affair.
(d) The steamer that travels on the Nile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is left for the narrator when Mustafa disappeared?

2. How often did the steamer come to the narrator's childhood village?

3. What does the subject turn to during the narrator's visit to the group of people, a month after the train conversation?

4. When did Mustafa travel around Europe, the Orient and India?

5. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?

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