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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. How was the weather when the narrator drove out of his village?
(a) Cold.
(b) Moderate.
(c) Hot.
(d) Warm.

2. What did the narrator feel like doing when he leaves Mustafa's house?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Going back.
(c) Everything.
(d) Something.

3. 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 drove.
(c) He swam.
(d) He walked.

4. 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 sang about them.
(d) He talked about them to his friends.

5. How were Hosna and Wad buried?
(a) With a busy ceremony.
(b) Slowly with lots of greetings.
(c) With a nice funeral.
(d) Quickly and without a funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Hosna not do to Wad for two weeks after the wedding?

2. Where did Mrs. Robinson live?

3. What did Mustafa do in his sleep?

4. What did the narrator do to the triangular room?

5. What did the narrator do when he's tired of looking over the contents in the triangular room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Wad Reyyes' reaction when the narrator told him Hosna's reaction to the idea of marriage?

5. How does the book end?

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

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

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

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

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

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