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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?
(a) Sa'eed.
(b) Mustafa.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Mahmoud.

2. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?
(a) The weather.
(b) His career with the army.
(c) The narrator's career.
(d) His career with the government.

3. Where did Mustafa go to school when he had to go abroad for the first time?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Casablanca.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Khartoum.

4. What is the narrator's response to the presumption about Mustafa?
(a) That he was happily married.
(b) That he's dead.
(c) That he was a millionaire.
(d) That he was an intelligent professor.

5. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?
(a) That they have the same customs and traditions.
(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 are just like the people in his village are.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator invite Mustafa to after their introduction?

3. What is the name of the river that runs through the village?

4. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?

5. Who does the narrator visit a month after the conversation on the train?

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