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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the narrator guardian of?
(a) Wad's sister.
(b) Mustafa's children.
(c) Mustafa's wife.
(d) Wad's children.

4. 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.

5. Who did the villagers blame for not getting the project they worked on finished?
(a) The government.
(b) The neighboring country.
(c) The enemy.
(d) The guerilla.

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

7. How wass the grandfather's house built?
(a) Messy.
(b) Rapidly.
(c) Methodically.
(d) Thoughtfully.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the name of the river that runs through the village?
(a) Amazon.
(b) Nile.
(c) Schelde.
(d) Donau.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is stored in the strange triangular room of Mustafa's house?

2. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?

3. Who is telling a story when the narrator arrives at his grandfather's house?

4. What is the name of the strange man in the village?

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

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