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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 does the narrator think Mustafa died?
(a) By disease or suicide.
(b) By disease or suffocation.
(c) By drowning or suicide.
(d) By drowning or disease.

2. Who should be given the key to the triangular room eventually?
(a) Mustafa's wife.
(b) Mustafa's mother.
(c) Mustafa's sons.
(d) The narrator.

3. What religion did they talk about at the grandfather's house?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Budhism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Hinduism.

4. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?
(a) Infidel women.
(b) Pretty women.
(c) Ugly women.
(d) Smart women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?

2. Where did Mustafa go to school when he had to go abroad for the first time?

3. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?

4. How did Mustafa feel when he grew up?

5. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is being said about Western women during a conversation at the grandfather's house?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What do you know about the legendary flooding of the Nile described in the book?

9. Whose story did the narrator interrupt when arriving at his grandfather's house one day and what was the story about?

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

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