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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Divorce.
(d) Mixed drinks.

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

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

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

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

6. What kind of life did the grandfather live?
(a) A rich life.
(b) A comfortable life.
(c) A tiring life.
(d) An acetic life.

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

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

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

10. How old is the strange man in the village the narrator is curious about?
(a) Around 70.
(b) Around 50.
(c) Around 60.
(d) Around 40.

11. How does the narrator travel back to the village from the steamer?
(a) By camel.
(b) By donkey.
(c) By foot.
(d) By horse.

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

13. Where did the narrator stay during his absence in the village?
(a) Africa.
(b) Europe.
(c) Asia.
(d) America.

14. What had instructions about what to do in the event of Mustafa's death?
(a) A letter.
(b) A diary.
(c) A testament.
(d) A postcard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did this influential man do to Mustafa?

2. What did Mustafa cause to other young women?

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

4. How many months a year dioesthe narrator spend in the village he grew up in?

5. What did the narrator do after leaving Mustafa's house the night Mustafa told his story?

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