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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 70-87.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he moved.
(b) That he lost his wife.
(c) That he drowned.
(d) That he lost his children.

3. Who does the narrator talk to one day when taking the train?
(a) A retired civil servant.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) A retired lawyer.

4. How many months a year dioesthe narrator spend in the village he grew up in?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

5. Who did Wad want to marry?
(a) Bint Mazjoub.
(b) The wife of the narrator.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) The widow of Mustafa Sa'eed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator do after leaving Mustafa's house the night Mustafa told his story?

2. What had instructions about what to do in the event of Mustafa's death?

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

4. Who invited the narrator to lunch as the group left grandfather's house?

5. With who did they banter back and forth about their sexual exploits at grandfather's house?

(see the answer key)

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