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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 Wad say when he heard Hosna's reaction to the marriage plans?
(a) That he will try to marry somebody else.
(b) That she was just a widow and will marry him.
(c) That she didn't have to marry him.
(d) That she should have two husbands.

2. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) He got married.
(b) He saved a lot of people.
(c) He lost his house.
(d) He didn't return home.

3. How did the narrator feel about Hosna?
(a) He didn't particularly like her.
(b) He was in love with her.
(c) He liked her as a friend.
(d) He hated her.

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

5. How did Jean Morris end her life?
(a) She hung herself.
(b) She shot herself.
(c) She took a fatal dose of medicines.
(d) She gassed herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason for his visit did the narrator give his mother?

2. Who was the narrator thinking about during his ghastly journey to the village?

3. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?

4. What was written in a notebook the narrator found in the triangular room?

5. Where did Mustafa's car stop for servicing?

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