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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 134-165.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator ask Hosna?
(a) If she loved Wad.
(b) If she hated Mustafa.
(c) If she loved him.
(d) If she loved Mustafa.

2. Why could Mahjoub not question the conference delegate?
(a) Because it was too hot.
(b) Because he disappeared.
(c) Because it was inappropriate.
(d) Because he didn't want to talk anymore.

3. What did Mustafa do as the first Sudanese?
(a) Marry only one woman at a time.
(b) Marry an English woman.
(c) Marry a French woman.
(d) Marry an Egyptian woman.

4. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?
(a) That they are just like the people in his village are.
(b) That they are very different from the people in his village.
(c) That they are much smarter than the people in his village.
(d) That they have the same customs and traditions.

5. What kind of life did the grandfather live?
(a) An acetic life.
(b) A comfortable life.
(c) A rich life.
(d) A tiring life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?

3. What did the narrator feel towards Mustafa while in the triangular room?

4. Which people occupied the Sudan in the past?

5. What was the narrator being told by the person who picks him up?

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