View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How often did the steamer come to the narrator's childhood village?
(a) Once a week.
(b) Twice a month.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Once a month.

3. Which gift does Mustafa bring the narrator when he visits his house?
(a) Bananas and oranges.
(b) Melons and oranges.
(c) Melons and bananas.
(d) Papayas and mangos.

4. What does the narrator say about Western women?
(a) That they are attractive.
(b) That he knows all about them
(c) That he doesn't know about them.
(d) That they are smart.

5. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her siblings.
(c) Her husbands.
(d) Her friends.

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

7. Who does the narrator talk to one day when taking the train?
(a) A retired lawyer.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) A retired civil servant.

8. What was the name of the college Mustafa went to in the Sudan?
(a) Khartoum Collage.
(b) Graham Collage.
(c) Gordon Collage.
(d) Oxford Collage.

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

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

11. What is the name of the narrator's favorite tree?
(a) Acacia.
(b) Boabab.
(c) Oak.
(d) Bonsai.

12. How many months a year dioesthe narrator spend in the village he grew up in?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

13. How did Mustafa feel when he grew up?
(a) Scared.
(b) Free.
(c) Tired.
(d) Sad.

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

15. Where did Mustafa go to school when he had to go abroad for the first time?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Khartoum.
(c) Casablanca.
(d) Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?

3. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?

4. Whose voice did the narrator hear when he walked by his grandfather's house?

5. How long did it take Mustafa to learn to write?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 442 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample