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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. Where did the narrator want to go when in the water?
(a) To Europe.
(b) The Southern shore.
(c) The Northern shore.
(d) Nowhere.

2. Who did a conference delegate praise about to Mahjoub?
(a) Himself.
(b) Mahjoub.
(c) Mustafa Sa'eed.
(d) The narrator.

3. What did the narrator do with the door of the courtyard when leaving?
(a) He locked it.
(b) He painted it.
(c) He replaced it.
(d) He destroyed it.

4. What did the narrator ask Hosna?
(a) If she loved Mustafa.
(b) If she loved him.
(c) If she loved Wad.
(d) If she hated Mustafa.

5. How did the narrator enter the triangular room?
(a) He forced the door.
(b) He got help from his sister.
(c) With the key.
(d) Mustafa's boys opened the door for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator find in the triangular room?

2. Who was the narrator thinking about during his drive away from the village?

3. What did the narrator feel like doing when he leaves Mustafa's house?

4. What did the narrator regret not having done?

5. Where did the narrator go to after leaving Mustafa's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when the narrator and his friend Mahjoub talk about the murders?

2. What do you know about the character Mahjoub?

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

4. What does Hosna tell the narrator about Mustafa when he visited her one day?

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

6. Mahjoub and the narrator have a short conversation about Khartoum. What did they talk about? What did the narrator not talk about?

7. During the car trip, the narrator decided to write somebody. Who did he want to write and why?

8. The narrator never finished his story about Mustafa. How would you end this story?

9. What had happened to Hosna and Wad while the narrator was away from the village?

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

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