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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 166-169.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the narrator want to go when in the water?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) The Southern shore.
(c) To Europe.
(d) The Northern shore.

2. Where did the narrator leave for after the ceremony in his village?
(a) Asia.
(b) Khartoum.
(c) Europe.
(d) Cairo.

3. What does the narrator talk about when he returns to the village he grew up in?
(a) A donkey.
(b) Mustafa.
(c) The steamer that travels on the Nile.
(d) His new love affair.

4. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?
(a) Because he meets the narrator.
(b) Because he falls in love with a woman.
(c) Because he gets offered a job.
(d) Because he likes it.

5. Who had the key to Mustafa's special room?
(a) The narrator's friend Mahjoub.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Mustafa's children.
(d) Hosna.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What killed Wad and Hosna?

4. How old is Mahmoud?

5. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?

(see the answer key)

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