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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 61-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what has the narrator earned a doctorate?
(a) Engineering.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Literature.
(d) Law.

2. Why did Mustafa marry Jean?
(a) Because he loved her very much.
(b) Because he wanted her money.
(c) Because she wanted to get married.
(d) Because she wanted children.

3. How many days following their introduction do the narrator and Mustafa have dinner?
(a) The next day.
(b) In two days.
(c) In four days.
(d) In ten days.

4. Who was the public prosecutor at Mustafa's trial?
(a) One of his friends from Cairo.
(b) One of his friends from Oxford.
(c) One of his teachers at Cairo.
(d) One of his teachers at Oxford.

5. What does the subject turn to during the narrator's visit to the group of people, a month after the train conversation?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Murder.
(c) Mixed drinks.
(d) Mixed marriages.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How often did the steamer come to the narrator's childhood village?

3. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?

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

5. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?

(see the answer key)

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