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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who should be given the key to the triangular room eventually?
2. What does the narrator's sister think about Western women?
3. How did Mustafa feel when he grew up?
4. Who does the narrator talk to one day when taking the train?
5. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the narrator do after Mustafa told him his story?
2. What happened on the train one day, when the narrator works at the Department of Education in Khartoum?
3. What did the narrator's companion on the train in Khartoum tell him about Mustafa and how did he react to this information?
4. What do you know about the legendary flooding of the Nile described in the book?
5. What did grandfather tell the narrator about Wad Rayyes?
6. What does the narrator tell you about the steamer that brings him to his old village?
7. Who was the strange man in the village when the narrator gets back and how does he describe this man?
8. How can you relate the narrator to the Acacia tree?
9. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?
10. What is being said about Western women during a conversation at the grandfather's house?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
An important part in "Season of Migration to the North" is the difference between the Western and the African culture. While reading, you learn a lot about the African culture. Give a few examples from the book about African life. Think about the narrator's arrival and stay in the village to describe tribal life. How does the African culture differ from the American culture? Compare and contrast African and American life.
Essay Topic 2
An important meeting takes place in the beginning of the book. During the narrator's absence in the village, a stranger by the name of Mustafa has arrived and settled. Describe how the narrator and Mustafa first meet. How do they get to know each other? How does their relationship evolve? Why is this evolving relationship important for the plot of the book?
Essay Topic 3
When Mustafa lives in London, he meets a woman at a party in Chelsea. Describe this episode in Mustafa's life. What do you know about this woman? What is her name? Who is she? What happens to her? How does this influence Mustafa's life? How is this woman related to other women in Mustafa's life? What is the result of this woman's fate for Mustafa?
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