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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. What does the narrator invite Mustafa to after their introduction?
(a) To coffee.
(b) To cookies.
(c) To juice.
(d) To tea.

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

3. Who did Wad want to marry?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) Bint Mazjoub.
(c) The wife of the narrator.
(d) The widow of Mustafa Sa'eed.

4. What were tribal women that Western women are not?
(a) Smart.
(b) Pretty.
(c) Circumcised.
(d) Stupid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How wass the grandfather's house built?

2. How did Mustafa feel when he grew up?

3. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?

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

5. How often did the steamer come to the narrator's childhood village?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Mustafa treated during his time in Cairo?

2. How can you relate the narrator to the Acacia tree?

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

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

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

6. What was left for the narrator after Mustafa disappears?

7. How do the narrator and Mustafa first meet and what do they learn about each other?

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

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

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

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