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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 105-115.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who invited the narrator to lunch as the group left grandfather's house?
(a) Wad Prayers.
(b) Wad Rayyes.
(c) Bint Mazjoub.
(d) Mustafa Sa'eed.

2. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?
(a) That he killed many women.
(b) That he was a fair student.
(c) That he was the most brilliant student.
(d) That he was a brilliant teacher.

3. What did Mustafa cause to other young women?
(a) Disease.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Love of life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator and his friend Mahjoub banter about being in Mustafa's special room?

2. Where is Mustafa from?

3. What were tribal women that Western women are not?

4. What did Mustafa have in Khartoum?

5. How does the narrator think Mustafa died?

(see the answer key)

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