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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 many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.
2. What did the villagers begin to build at one point?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A supermarket.
(c) An army.
(d) A school.
3. Who is telling a story when the narrator arrives at his grandfather's house?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.
4. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her siblings.
(d) Her husbands.
5. What is Mustafa's last name?
(a) Kassioui.
(b) Mubarak.
(c) Sa'aad.
(d) Sa'eed.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the strange man in the village?
2. What is stored in the strange triangular room of Mustafa's house?
3. Who should be given the key to the triangular room eventually?
4. Who does the narrator visit a month after the conversation on the train?
5. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was the strange man in the village when the narrator gets back and how does he describe this man?
2. What do you know about the narrator's grandfather as a person?
3. How do the narrator and Mustafa first meet and what do they learn about each other?
4. What did the narrator's companion on the train in Khartoum tell him about Mustafa and how did he react to this information?
5. How does the narrator's knowledge of Mustafa conflict with that of his acquaintances from the University of Khartoum?
6. What do you know about the legendary flooding of the Nile described in the book?
7. How can you relate the narrator to the Acacia tree?
8. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?
9. What did grandfather tell the narrator about Wad Rayyes?
10. What does the narrator tell you about the steamer that brings him to his old village?
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