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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 did Wad say when he heard Hosna's reaction to the marriage plans?
(a) That she didn't have to marry him.
(b) That he will try to marry somebody else.
(c) That she should have two husbands.
(d) That she was just a widow and will marry him.

2. How does the narrator finish the story of Mustafa?
(a) With a happy ending.
(b) With how Mustafa died.
(c) With taking the boys with him.
(d) He doesn't.

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

4. What did the narrator regret not having done?
(a) Marrying Hosna.
(b) Taking the boys.
(c) Going in Mustafa's special room.
(d) Talking to his grandfather.

5. Why did the narrator feel he lost the war?
(a) Because he acted in a correct way.
(b) Because the enemy was stronger.
(c) Because he didn't act when he could have.
(d) Because he killed a few people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What killed Wad and Hosna?

2. How did the narrator leave the triangular room?

3. What reason for his visit did the narrator give his mother?

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

5. What did the narrator tell his friend Mahjoub about in Khartoum?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were all the things that are tangled up, according to the narrator?

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

3. What did the narrator find in the triangular room and what did he do while in there?

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

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

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

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

8. Who did the narrator and his driver run into during the car trip and what happens?

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

10. Soon after leaving the village, the narrator has to go back. Why?

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