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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator invite Mustafa to after their introduction?
(a) To tea.
(b) To juice.
(c) To cookies.
(d) To coffee.

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

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

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

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

8. When was the last time Mustafa saw his mother?
(a) When he got married.
(b) While he was at school abroad.
(c) Before he went to school abroad.
(d) After he went to school abroad.

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

10. Who is telling a story when the narrator arrives at his grandfather's house?
(a) His father.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His brother.
(d) His grandfather.

11. Who was Mustafa's only relative?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His mother.

12. What is left for the narrator when Mustafa disappeared?
(a) A key and a testament.
(b) A message and a testament.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A key and a message.

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

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

15. What is the house of the narrator's grandfather made of?
(a) Brick.
(b) Mud.
(c) Wood.
(d) Palm leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?

2. How wass the grandfather's house built?

3. Who is the narrator guardian of?

4. Which people occupied the Sudan in the past?

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

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