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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. What did the grandfather splurge on?

2. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?

3. What is the name of the river that runs through the village?

4. Which people occupied the Sudan in the past?

5. What did this influential man do to Mustafa?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mustafa have to do with the topic of mixed marriages?

2. What did the narrator do after Mustafa told him his story?

3. What else, after the conversation about Western women, was being talked about in grandfather's house the same day?

4. What do you know about Mustafa's family and how did that affect him?

5. What did grandfather tell the narrator about Wad Rayyes?

6. Who was the strange man in the village when the narrator gets back and how does he describe this man?

7. Does Mustafa Sa'eed become an obsession for the narrator?

8. What did the narrator learn on the way back to the village by donkey?

9. What do you know about the narrator's grandfather as a person?

10. How did the narrator feel about being back in his old village after being gone for seven years?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator and Mustafa are the main characters in "Season of Migration to the North." What do you know about Mustafa's appearance and character? How is that information brought to the reader? What do you know about the narrator? How are the two characters important to each other? Compare and contrast the characters of Mustafa and the narrator. How are they alike? What are their differences?

Essay Topic 2

The triangular room is mentioned throughout the book. What is this room? Why is it important? Whose room is it? What does the narrator have to do with this room? What happens to the room? What are the contents in this room? What does the narrator do in this room? What does he see and what is his reaction? What does he relate the pictures of the women to? How is Jean Morris' death related to Hosna's death? How does the narrator leave the room? Why is his being in the room important to the conclusion of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Mustafa's widow Hosna and Wad Reyyes become a part of each other's lives. Describe their history together and how this influences other people. How do they become involved? Why? What does Wad want? What does Hosna want? What happens to the two people? What is their dramatic end a result from? How do the villagers react to the events? How does the narrator feel about the events? How does Mahjoub feel about the event? How does this event change the relationship between the narrator and his friend Mahjoub? Why does the narrator feel he indirectly killed Hosna?

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