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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told the narrator about Wad's marriage plans?
(a) Father.
(b) Mustafa.
(c) Wad himself.
(d) Grandfather.

2. What did the narrator relate his knowledge of the women in the pictures to?
(a) To events he read about in the newspaper.
(b) To events that occured at the trial.
(c) To events that he has heard about from his family.
(d) To events known by nobody but him.

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

4. What did the villagers begin to build at one point?
(a) A supermarket.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A school.
(d) An army.

5. Who waits for the narrator each time he arrived back in his childhood village?
(a) His father and other family members.
(b) Just his friends.
(c) His father and his friends.
(d) Just his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cigarettes did the narrator give the person who asked for one?

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

3. What was the narrator's promise to Mustafa?

4. How did the narrator try to get help when caught in something at the end of the book?

5. What did the narrator do with the candles in the triangular room?

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