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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 45-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what has the narrator earned a doctorate?
(a) Engineering.
(b) Law.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Literature.

2. What does the narrator's father do when he has tea with his family again?
(a) He recites verses from the Bible.
(b) He eats cake.
(c) He recites verses from the Koran.
(d) He tells a few stories.

3. How long has the narrator been gone before returning to his village in Africa?
(a) Eight years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Seven years.
(d) Six years

4. How does the narrator know about the legendary flooding of the Nile?
(a) He read about it.
(b) His father told him.
(c) His mother told him.
(d) Mustafa told him.

5. What does the subject turn to during the narrator's visit to the group of people, a month after the train conversation?
(a) Mixed drinks.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Mixed marriages.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the strange man in the village?

2. How many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?

3. When was the last time Mustafa saw his mother?

4. What did Mustafa do as the first Sudanese?

5. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?

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