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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion did they talk about at the grandfather's house?
(a) Islam.
(b) Hinduism.
(c) Budhism.
(d) Catholicism.

2. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?
(a) Grandfather.
(b) Mahmoud.
(c) Sa'eed.
(d) Mustafa.

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

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

5. How long has the narrator been gone before returning to his village in Africa?
(a) Five years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Six years
(d) Eight years.

6. With who did they banter back and forth about their sexual exploits at grandfather's house?
(a) With the neighbors.
(b) With the old women.
(c) With the village leaders.
(d) With the old men.

7. What does the narrator's father do when he has tea with his family again?
(a) He eats cake.
(b) He recites verses from the Bible.
(c) He recites verses from the Koran.
(d) He tells a few stories.

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

9. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?
(a) Infidel women.
(b) Pretty women.
(c) Ugly women.
(d) Smart women.

10. How does the narrator know about the legendary flooding of the Nile?
(a) He read about it.
(b) His mother told him.
(c) Mustafa told him.
(d) His father told him.

11. Why did Mustafa marry Jean?
(a) Because she wanted children.
(b) Because he wanted her money.
(c) Because he loved her very much.
(d) Because she wanted to get married.

12. What does the subject turn to during the narrator's visit to the group of people, a month after the train conversation?
(a) Mixed marriages.
(b) Murder.
(c) Mixed drinks.
(d) Divorce.

13. What did the narrator do after leaving Mustafa's house the night Mustafa told his story?
(a) He wanders around.
(b) He visits his grandfather.
(c) He goes for a swim.
(d) He goes home.

14. What did Mustafa suffer from?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Suicidal thoughts.
(c) Wanderlust.
(d) A chronic disease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator stay during his absence in the village?

2. When was the last time Mustafa saw his mother?

3. Who does the narrator talk to one day when taking the train?

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

5. When were rooms added to the grandfather's house?

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