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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 kinds of things did people in the narrator's village normally not do?
(a) Murder somebody.
(b) Laugh at somebody.
(c) Help somebody.
(d) Marry somebody.

2. What was written in a notebook the narrator found in the triangular room?
(a) Mustafa's love story.
(b) Mustafa's dreams.
(c) Mustafa's finances.
(d) Mustafa's life story.

3. Why did the narrator and his driver stop by a government car?
(a) Because they were too hot.
(b) Because the occupants requested them to stop.
(c) Because it was on fire.
(d) Because it was disabled.

4. Who was the narrator thinking about during his ghastly journey to the village?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) Hosna.
(c) His friend Mahjoub.
(d) The boys.

5. What did Mustafa do in his sleep?
(a) He mumbled.
(b) He cursed.
(c) He sleep walked.
(d) He sang.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator feel towards Mustafa while in the triangular room?

2. What did the narrator decide to do with Mrs. Robinson?

3. What was the narrator caught in when he couldn't go any further?

4. Where did the narrator want to go when in the water?

5. What did the narrator wonder about the women he saw pictures of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the narrator do when he approaches the triangular room?

2. How did the busy day of driving end for the narrator and his driver?

3. Who met the narrator when he arrives by steamer, not too long after he had left, and what do they talk about?

4. Who are Mustafa's children and what is the narrator's relationship with them?

5. Give your opinion about the book and its two main characters.

6. What were the narrator and Mahjoub talking about when they were in a drunken state before he leaves the village?

7. What did the narrator think about the people in the pictures?

8. What did the narrator do with the triangular room, after he's finished there?

9. Where did the narrator go after leaving Mustafa's house and what happened there?

10. Describe how the narrator left the village again after his conversations with Hosna and Mahjoub.

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