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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?
(a) Because he likes it.
(b) Because he gets offered a job.
(c) Because he meets the narrator.
(d) Because he falls in love with a woman.

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

4. What was presumed about Mustafa by the group of people the narrator talks to?
(a) That he was an intelligent professor.
(b) That he was a millionaire.
(c) That he was happily married.
(d) That he was dead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voice did the narrator hear when he walked by his grandfather's house?

2. How many years did Mustafa stay in his first school before going abroad the first time?

3. What is the name of the narrator's favorite tree?

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

5. What does the subject turn to during the narrator's visit to the group of people, a month after the train conversation?

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