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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator's promise to Mustafa?
(a) Not to go into the triangular room.
(b) Not to talk about him.
(c) Not to talk about his mother.
(d) Not to take care of his sons.

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

3. Which people occupied the Sudan in the past?
(a) The English.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The French.
(d) The Spanish.

4. How old is the strange man in the village the narrator is curious about?
(a) Around 40.
(b) Around 60.
(c) Around 50.
(d) Around 70.

5. When did Mustafa travel around Europe, the Orient and India?
(a) After he was released from prison.
(b) After he finished school.
(c) After he lost his mother.
(d) After he killed one of his wives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?

2. Where did Mustafa first see Isabella Seymour?

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

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

5. Where did Mustafa meet Jean Morris?

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