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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. Why did Mustafa marry Jean?
(a) Because she wanted children.
(b) Because he loved her very much.
(c) Because he wanted her money.
(d) Because she wanted to get married.

2. Who did the villagers blame for not getting the project they worked on finished?
(a) The guerilla.
(b) The enemy.
(c) The government.
(d) The neighboring country.

3. What does the narrator's father do when he has tea with his family again?
(a) He tells a few stories.
(b) He eats cake.
(c) He recites verses from the Bible.
(d) He recites verses from the Koran.

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

5. When did legendary flooding of the Nile occur?
(a) Every 20 or 30 years.
(b) Every 40 or 50 years.
(c) Never.
(d) Every 100 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the strange man in the village?

2. Who should be given the key to the triangular room eventually?

3. How many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?

4. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?

5. Who invited the narrator to lunch as the group left grandfather's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do you know about the narrator's grandfather as a person?

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

5. What did Mustafa want for his sons?

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

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

8. Who was the strange man in the village when the narrator gets back and how does he describe this man?

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

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

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