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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did legendary flooding of the Nile occur?
(a) Never.
(b) Every 40 or 50 years.
(c) Every 100 years.
(d) Every 20 or 30 years.

2. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?
(a) One year.
(b) Four years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Two years.

3. What was presumed about Mustafa by the group of people the narrator talks to?
(a) That he was dead.
(b) That he was a millionaire.
(c) That he was an intelligent professor.
(d) That he was happily married.

4. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he drowned.
(b) That he lost his children.
(c) That he moved.
(d) That he lost his wife.

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

6. Who is Sa'eed?
(a) Mustafa's helper.
(b) The shopkeeper.
(c) Mustafa's brother.
(d) The mechanic.

7. Who does the narrator remember when he sees his favorite tree?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His best friend.

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

9. What did Mustafa cause to other young women?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Love of life.
(c) Disease.
(d) Hunger.

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

11. When were rooms added to the grandfather's house?
(a) When needed or when extra money was available.
(b) Only when needed.
(c) When other rooms were destroyed.
(d) Only when extra money was available.

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

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

14. What did this influential man do to Mustafa?
(a) He beat him.
(b) He took him to school.
(c) He gave him a gift.
(d) He offered him tea.

15. What did Mustafa do as the first Sudanese?
(a) Marry an Egyptian woman.
(b) Marry a French woman.
(c) Marry an English woman.
(d) Marry only one woman at a time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?

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

3. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?

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

5. What is left for the narrator when Mustafa disappeared?

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