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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 the narrator do with his thoughts of Mustafa and Hosna when he leaves the triangular room?
(a) He kept thinking about them.
(b) He left them behind him.
(c) He talked about them to his friends.
(d) He sang about them.

2. What was the narrator caught in when he couldn't go any further?
(a) An accident.
(b) His chair.
(c) A net.
(d) The current.

3. What did the narrator do to the triangular room?
(a) He burned it.
(b) He destroyed it.
(c) He painted it.
(d) Nothing.

4. What did the narrator feel towards Mustafa while in the triangular room?
(a) Love.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Bitterness.

5. Where did the narrator go the day after he hears about Wad's marriage plans?
(a) To the house of Wad.
(b) To the house of his grandfather.
(c) To the house of his mother.
(d) To the house of Mustafa Sa'eed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did they have planned for the boys since the narrator was in town?

2. What kinds of things did people in the narrator's village normally not do?

3. How did the narrator leave the triangular room?

4. What did the narrator wonder after hearing about the tragedy in his village?

5. What did the narrator regret not telling Hosna?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Mahjoub tell the narrator about Mustafa?

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

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

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

7. What did the narrator tell Hosna about marriage and how did she react to this?

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

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

10. How does the narrator learn what happened to Hosna and Wad?

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