Season of Migration to the North Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Tayeb Salih
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Season of Migration to the North Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the narrator and his grandfather feel about seeing each other?
(a) Happy.
(b) Overly excited.
(c) Sad.
(d) Annoyed.

2. What did Mustafa do when this influential man appeared?
(a) Hide somewhere.
(b) Offer him tea.
(c) Talk to him.
(d) Run away.

3. Who should be given the key to the triangular room eventually?
(a) Mustafa's sons.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Mustafa's wife.
(d) Mustafa's mother.

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

5. What does the narrator's sister think about Western women?
(a) That they are not as stupid as their tribal women.
(b) That they are not as knowledgeable as their tribal women.
(c) That they are not as attractive as their tribal women.
(d) That they are not as healthy as their tribal women.

6. What did the narrator miss most during his absence in the village?
(a) The food.
(b) Nature.
(c) The closeness of tribal life.
(d) The climate.

7. Where is Mustafa from?
(a) Carthage.
(b) Casablanca.
(c) Khartoum.
(d) Cairo.

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

9. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) He saved a lot of people.
(b) He didn't return home.
(c) He got married.
(d) He lost his house.

10. How does the narrator think Mustafa died?
(a) By disease or suicide.
(b) By drowning or suicide.
(c) By drowning or disease.
(d) By disease or suffocation.

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

12. Where did Mustafa meet Jean Morris?
(a) In Khartoum.
(b) In Dublin.
(c) In Cairo.
(d) In Chelsea.

13. In what has the narrator earned a doctorate?
(a) Engineering.
(b) Law.
(c) Literature.
(d) Medicine.

14. How did Jean Morris end her life?
(a) She shot herself.
(b) She hung herself.
(c) She gassed herself.
(d) She took a fatal dose of medicines.

15. How many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?

3. Which people occupied the Sudan in the past?

4. What was the name of the college Mustafa went to in the Sudan?

5. Who told the narrator about Wad's marriage plans?

(see the answer keys)

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