Season of Migration to the North Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Tayeb Salih
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Season of Migration to the North Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Tayeb Salih
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 is the name of the river that runs through the village?
(a) Schelde.
(b) Donau.
(c) Nile.
(d) Amazon.

2. What does the narrator say about Western women?
(a) That he doesn't know about them.
(b) That he knows all about them
(c) That they are smart.
(d) That they are attractive.

3. What is the house of the narrator's grandfather made of?
(a) Wood.
(b) Brick.
(c) Palm leaves.
(d) Mud.

4. When was the last time Mustafa saw his mother?
(a) After he went to school abroad.
(b) While he was at school abroad.
(c) When he got married.
(d) Before he went to school abroad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator not want Mustafa to become for him?

2. With who did they banter back and forth about their sexual exploits at grandfather's house?

3. Who did the villagers blame for not getting the project they worked on finished?

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

5. What did this influential man do to Mustafa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happened to Mustafa when he meets a man on horseback?

9. What does the narrator tell you about the steamer that brings him to his old village?

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

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