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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had the key to Mustafa's special room?
(a) Mustafa's children.
(b) Hosna.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The narrator's friend Mahjoub.

2. What did the narrator tell his friend Mahjoub about in Khartoum?
(a) The educational conference.
(b) A new hospital.
(c) A new university.
(d) The agricultural conference.

3. What did the narrator do with the candles in the triangular room?
(a) He threw them out.
(b) He puts them out.
(c) He gave them away.
(d) He lit them.

4. What reason for his visit did the narrator give his mother?
(a) His mother.
(b) The boys.
(c) Hosna.
(d) His grandfather.

5. How did the narrator feel about Hosna?
(a) He liked her as a friend.
(b) He was in love with her.
(c) He hated her.
(d) He didn't particularly like her.

6. Where did the narrator go the day after he hears about Wad's marriage plans?
(a) To the house of his mother.
(b) To the house of Mustafa Sa'eed.
(c) To the house of Wad.
(d) To the house of his grandfather.

7. What did the narrator feel when he's done looking around in the triangular room?
(a) That he must take everything out of the room.
(b) That he must bring it all to an end.
(c) That he must find Mrs. Robinson.
(d) That he must find his grandfather.

8. What was the narrator being told by the person who picks him up?
(a) That his grandfather was all right.
(b) That his father was all right.
(c) That Hosna was all right.
(d) That the boys were all right.

9. Who tried to prevent the tragedy at Wad's house?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The neighbors.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Mahjoub.

10. What did the narrator find in the triangular room?
(a) Gold and jewels.
(b) Medals and pictures.
(c) Several weapons.
(d) Books and pictures.

11. Why did the narrator want to contact Mrs. Robinson?
(a) She was Mustafa's best friend.
(b) She was Mustafa's wife.
(c) She lived with Mustafa.
(d) She attended Mustafa's trial.

12. What killed Wad and Hosna?
(a) Medicines.
(b) A knife.
(c) A gun.
(d) A rope.

13. What were the occupants of the government car going to do?
(a) Hide in the shade.
(b) Arrest the narrator and his driver.
(c) Arrest a woman who killed her husband.
(d) Go for lunch.

14. How far did the narrator get before he couldn't go any further?
(a) Almost there.
(b) A third of the way.
(c) Two thirds of the way.
(d) Half way across.

15. Why could Mahjoub not question the conference delegate?
(a) Because he disappeared.
(b) Because he didn't want to talk anymore.
(c) Because it was too hot.
(d) Because it was inappropriate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the narrator thinking about during his ghastly journey to the village?

2. Which war did Mustafa write comments about in the letter to the narrator?

3. What did Hosna do when she thought about Mustafa?

4. How did the narrator leave the triangular room?

5. Who met the narrator when he arrived back into the village by steamer?

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