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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator and his driver try to escape the heat of the sun?
(a) By going to a bar.
(b) By looking for a place in the shade.
(c) By going back in the car.
(d) By asking around for a good place to hide.

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

3. What did Mustafa have in Khartoum?
(a) A business.
(b) A testament.
(c) A fancy car.
(d) Another child.

4. Who met the narrator when he arrived back into the village by steamer?
(a) Mustafa's sons.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His father.
(d) His friend Mahjoub.

5. What did the narrator feel towards the women in the pictures?
(a) He felt that he has come to know them.
(b) He felt in love with them.
(c) He felt sorry for all of them.
(d) He felt why they loved Mustafa.

6. What kind of a person was Mustafa towards Hosna?
(a) Good and generous.
(b) Awful and rude.
(c) Loving and faithful.
(d) Violent and unforgiving.

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

8. Why was the land of the narrator condemned?
(a) Because of the storms.
(b) Because of the heat.
(c) Because of its people.
(d) Because of the rain.

9. What did the narrator wonder about the women he saw pictures of?
(a) Why they loved Mustafa.
(b) Why they are so pretty.
(c) Why they have their pictures in this room.
(d) Why they committed suicide.

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

11. What did the narrator regret not telling Hosna?
(a) How he felt about Mustafa's boys.
(b) How to get into the triangular room.
(c) How he felt about her.
(d) How she should leave the village.

12. What was the narrator caught in when he couldn't go any further?
(a) An accident.
(b) His chair.
(c) A net.
(d) The current.

13. Why did the narrator visit his sister?
(a) To avoid an argument.
(b) To get a letter from Hosna.
(c) To get information about the murders.
(d) Because he loves her.

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

15. Where did Mustafa's car stop for servicing?
(a) At an oasis.
(b) At a friend's house.
(c) At a fuel station.
(d) At a bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator do with the candles in the triangular room?

2. What did the narrator feel towards Mustafa while in the triangular room?

3. Who did the narrator talk about the murders with, after visiting his sister?

4. What did the narrator feel, realizing his world turned upside down?

5. What would Hosna not do to Wad for two weeks after the wedding?

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