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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 long did it take Mustafa to learn to write?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two days.

2. How many months a year dioesthe narrator spend in the village he grew up in?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. How many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

4. How often did the steamer come to the narrator's childhood village?
(a) Twice a month.
(b) Once a month.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Once a week.

5. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?
(a) Pretty women.
(b) Ugly women.
(c) Infidel women.
(d) Smart women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is left for the narrator when Mustafa disappeared?

2. Why did Mustafa marry Jean?

3. Who does the narrator remember when he sees his favorite tree?

4. How did an influential man once appear before Mustafa?

5. How did Mustafa feel when he grew up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the narrator's companion on the train in Khartoum tell him about Mustafa and how did he react to this information?

2. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?

3. Whose story did the narrator interrupt when arriving at his grandfather's house one day and what was the story about?

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

5. What do you know about the narrator's grandfather as a person?

6. What is being said about Western women during a conversation at the grandfather's house?

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

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

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

10. What did Mustafa do after he was released from prison?

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