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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 the narrator's promise to Mustafa?
(a) Not to talk about him.
(b) Not to talk about his mother.
(c) Not to take care of his sons.
(d) Not to go into the triangular room.

2. How long has the narrator been gone before returning to his village in Africa?
(a) Five years.
(b) Eight years.
(c) Seven years.
(d) Six years

3. What is the name of the river that runs through the village?
(a) Donau.
(b) Amazon.
(c) Schelde.
(d) Nile.

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

5. What did the grandfather splurge on?
(a) What he needed for the house.
(b) What his wife needed.
(c) What the narrator needed.
(d) What he needed for prayer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's favorite tree?

2. When was the last time Mustafa saw his mother?

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

4. What were tribal women that Western women are not?

5. How was Mustafa presented at his trial?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened on the train one day, when the narrator works at the Department of Education in Khartoum?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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