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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. With who did they banter back and forth about their sexual exploits at grandfather's house?
(a) With the neighbors.
(b) With the old men.
(c) With the old women.
(d) With the village leaders.

2. What did Mustafa do when this influential man appeared?
(a) Talk to him.
(b) Hide somewhere.
(c) Run away.
(d) Offer him tea.

3. What is stored in the strange triangular room of Mustafa's house?
(a) A key and a message.
(b) Papers and diaries.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A testament.

4. How many days following their introduction do the narrator and Mustafa have dinner?
(a) In four days.
(b) In two days.
(c) The next day.
(d) In ten days.

5. What did Mustafa cause to other young women?
(a) Love of life.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Disease.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the college Mustafa went to in the Sudan?

2. Why did Mustafa marry Jean?

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

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

5. What did the narrator miss most during his absence in the village?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator's knowledge of Mustafa conflict with that of his acquaintances from the University of Khartoum?

3. What did the narrator learn on the way back to the village by donkey?

4. How did the narrator feel about being back in his old village after being gone for seven years?

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

6. What did Mustafa want for his sons?

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

8. Does Mustafa Sa'eed become an obsession for the narrator?

9. What else, after the conversation about Western women, was being talked about in grandfather's house the same day?

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

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