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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator finish the story of Mustafa?
(a) With taking the boys with him.
(b) He doesn't.
(c) With how Mustafa died.
(d) With a happy ending.

2. Why did the narrator and his driver stop by a government car?
(a) Because it was disabled.
(b) Because they were too hot.
(c) Because it was on fire.
(d) Because the occupants requested them to stop.

3. Who did the narrator think about as he reads about Jean Morris?
(a) His mother.
(b) Hosna.
(c) Majhoub.
(d) Mustafa.

4. How did the narrator try to get help when caught in something at the end of the book?
(a) He whistled.
(b) He called out.
(c) He sounded a horn.
(d) He wrote a letter.

5. What did the narrator decide to do with Mrs. Robinson?
(a) Visit her.
(b) Fax her.
(c) Call her.
(d) Write her.

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

7. To which school did the narrator and his friend Mahjoub go together?
(a) Middle School.
(b) University.
(c) Elementary School.
(d) High School.

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

9. What kinds of things did people in the narrator's village normally not do?
(a) Marry somebody.
(b) Help somebody.
(c) Laugh at somebody.
(d) Murder somebody.

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

11. How did the narrator leave the triangular room?
(a) He ran.
(b) He slid.
(c) He walked.
(d) He crawled.

12. Where did the narrator want to go when in the water?
(a) The Southern shore.
(b) To Europe.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) The Northern shore.

13. How many cigarettes did the narrator give the person who asked for one?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) The whole pack.
(d) One.

14. How were Hosna and Wad buried?
(a) Slowly with lots of greetings.
(b) With a busy ceremony.
(c) With a nice funeral.
(d) Quickly and without a funeral.

15. What did the narrator ask Hosna?
(a) If she loved Mustafa.
(b) If she loved Wad.
(c) If she loved him.
(d) If she hated Mustafa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator think about another fire in the village?

2. How did the narrator enter the triangular room?

3. In what kind of condition were the narrator and his friend Mahjoub in when they talked about Mustafa?

4. Who was the narrator thinking about during his drive away from the village?

5. What did the narrator relate his knowledge of the women in the pictures to?

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