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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 was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he moved.
(b) That he lost his children.
(c) That he drowned.
(d) That he lost his wife.

2. How does the narrator travel back to the village from the steamer?
(a) By donkey.
(b) By horse.
(c) By camel.
(d) By foot.

3. Who does the narrator talk to one day when taking the train?
(a) His father.
(b) His brother.
(c) A retired lawyer.
(d) A retired civil servant.

4. How do the narrator and his grandfather feel about seeing each other?
(a) Sad.
(b) Overly excited.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Happy.

5. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?
(a) That they have the same customs and traditions.
(b) That they are just like the people in his village are.
(c) That they are much smarter than the people in his village.
(d) That they are very different from the people in his village.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator know about the legendary flooding of the Nile?

2. How does the narrator think Mustafa died?

3. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?

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

5. What did the narrator do after leaving Mustafa's house the night Mustafa told his story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did you learn about Mustafa's trial in the pages 19-44?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did the narrator do after Mustafa told him his story?

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

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

10. What do you know about Mustafa's family and how did that affect him?

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