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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 kinds of things did people in the narrator's village normally not do?
(a) Laugh at somebody.
(b) Murder somebody.
(c) Marry somebody.
(d) Help somebody.

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

3. Who was the narrator thinking about during his ghastly journey to the village?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His friend Mahjoub.
(c) The boys.
(d) Hosna.

4. What did the narrator feel when he's done looking around in the triangular room?
(a) That he must find Mrs. Robinson.
(b) That he must find his grandfather.
(c) That he must bring it all to an end.
(d) That he must take everything out of the room.

5. Where did the narrator leave for after the ceremony in his village?
(a) Khartoum.
(b) Asia.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Mustafa presented at his trial?

2. When did legendary flooding of the Nile occur?

3. How long had the person asking for the cigarette been traveling?

4. What is the narrator's response to the presumption about Mustafa?

5. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?

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