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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Mustafa first see Isabella Seymour?
(a) At school.
(b) At a park.
(c) At a store.
(d) In a bar.

4. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?
(a) Because he meets the narrator.
(b) Because he gets offered a job.
(c) Because he likes it.
(d) Because he falls in love with a woman.

5. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?
(a) He says he doesn't know who Mustafa is.
(b) He smiles.
(c) He listens.
(d) He says he knew Mustafa as well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mustafa do when this influential man appeared?

2. What does the subject turn to during the narrator's visit to the group of people, a month after the train conversation?

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

4. How do the narrator and his grandfather feel about seeing each other?

5. What does the narrator talk about when he returns to the village he grew up in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Mustafa when he meets a man on horseback?

2. What did Mustafa's school career look like?

3. What does the narrator tell you about the steamer that brings him to his old village?

4. What does Mustafa have to do with the topic of mixed marriages?

5. Who was the strange man in the village when the narrator gets back and how does he describe this man?

6. What did grandfather tell the narrator about Wad Rayyes?

7. Which woman did Mustafa meet at a party in Chelsea and what happened to her?

8. How does the house of the narrator's grandfather look like?

9. How can you tell that the village life seems unchanged to the narrator when he gets back after all those years?

10. What do you know about the legendary flooding of the Nile described in the book?

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