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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 kind of a person was Mustafa towards Hosna?
(a) Loving and faithful.
(b) Violent and unforgiving.
(c) Good and generous.
(d) Awful and rude.

2. Who did the narrator talk to when Mahmoud and Sa'eed left?
(a) To Wad.
(b) To his grandfather.
(c) To Mustafa.
(d) To Mustafa's widow.

3. How did the narrator leave the triangular room?
(a) He slid.
(b) He walked.
(c) He crawled.
(d) He ran.

4. How did the narrator feel about Hosna?
(a) He liked her as a friend.
(b) He was in love with her.
(c) He didn't particularly like her.
(d) He hated her.

5. Where did the narrator fight his way to at the end of the book?
(a) To the other side.
(b) Home.
(c) To the bottom.
(d) To the surface.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the narrator talk about the murders with, after visiting his sister?

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

3. How did the narrator describe Mustafa while in the room?

4. What did the narrator feel, realizing his world turned upside down?

5. What did the narrator regret not having done?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do you know from the book that the Sudan is a hot country?

2. How does the book end?

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

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

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

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

7. How does the narrator relate Jean Morris to Hosna?

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

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

10. What did Mahjoub tell the narrator about Mustafa?

(see the answer keys)

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