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

2. What did the narrator relate his knowledge of the women in the pictures to?
(a) To events known by nobody but him.
(b) To events that he has heard about from his family.
(c) To events he read about in the newspaper.
(d) To events that occured at the trial.

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

4. How did the narrator try to get to where he wants to go at the end of the book?
(a) He took the plane.
(b) He walked.
(c) He swam.
(d) He drove.

5. What did Hosna do when she thought about Mustafa?
(a) She made food.
(b) She ran away.
(c) She smiled.
(d) She sobbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sa'eed?

2. Who did the narrator talk to when Mahmoud and Sa'eed left?

3. What kind of a person was Mustafa towards Hosna?

4. What happened to the narrator while he looked around in the triangular room?

5. What did the narrator do with the door of the courtyard when leaving?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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