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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. When did Mustafa travel around Europe, the Orient and India?
(a) After he lost his mother.
(b) After he killed one of his wives.
(c) After he was released from prison.
(d) After he finished school.

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

3. What did this influential man do to Mustafa?
(a) He gave him a gift.
(b) He beat him.
(c) He offered him tea.
(d) He took him to school.

4. What does the narrator invite Mustafa to after their introduction?
(a) To cookies.
(b) To juice.
(c) To coffee.
(d) To tea.

5. How long did it take Mustafa to learn to write?
(a) Four weeks.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two days.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?

2. What is Mustafa's last name?

3. How did Jean Morris end her life?

4. Who is telling a story when the narrator arrives at his grandfather's house?

5. Who was the public prosecutor at Mustafa's trial?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Mustafa have to do with the topic of mixed marriages?

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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