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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. Who was the public prosecutor at Mustafa's trial?
(a) One of his teachers at Cairo.
(b) One of his friends from Oxford.
(c) One of his teachers at Oxford.
(d) One of his friends from Cairo.

2. Who did Wad want to marry?
(a) The wife of the narrator.
(b) Bint Mazjoub.
(c) The widow of Mustafa Sa'eed.
(d) The narrator's mother.

3. What did the villagers begin to build at one point?
(a) A school.
(b) A supermarket.
(c) An army.
(d) A hospital.

4. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?
(a) Because he meets the narrator.
(b) Because he gets offered a job.
(c) Because he likes it.
(d) Because he falls in love with a woman.

5. How does the narrator travel back to the village from the steamer?
(a) By donkey.
(b) By foot.
(c) By camel.
(d) By horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of life did the grandfather live?

2. How do the narrator and his grandfather feel about seeing each other?

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

4. What is the house of the narrator's grandfather made of?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the narrator do after Mustafa told him his story?

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

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

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

8. What did grandfather tell the narrator about Wad Rayyes?

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

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

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