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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Four years.

2. How does the narrator think Mustafa died?
(a) By disease or suicide.
(b) By drowning or suicide.
(c) By disease or suffocation.
(d) By drowning or disease.

3. What is the name of the strange man in the village?
(a) Mustafa.
(b) Mahjoub.
(c) Koran.
(d) Mahmoud.

4. Whose voice did the narrator hear when he walked by his grandfather's house?
(a) His grandfather's.
(b) His father's.
(c) His grandmother's.
(d) Mustafa's.

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) Mixed drinks.
(c) Murder.
(d) Mixed marriages.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the strange man in the village the narrator is curious about?

2. How did an influential man once appear before Mustafa?

3. How does the narrator know about the legendary flooding of the Nile?

4. Who should be given the key to the triangular room eventually?

5. What is the house of the narrator's grandfather made of?

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