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

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

4. Who is telling a story when the narrator arrives at his grandfather's house?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His grandfather.

5. What were tribal women that Western women are not?
(a) Pretty.
(b) Smart.
(c) Circumcised.
(d) Stupid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's sister think about Western women?

2. When was the Sudanese independence?

3. Where is Mustafa from?

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

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

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