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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 is the name of the river that runs through the village?

2. How do the narrator and his grandfather feel about seeing each other?

3. How did Mustafa feel when he grew up?

4. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?

5. How many days following their introduction do the narrator and Mustafa have dinner?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Mustafa want for his sons?

3. How do the narrator and Mustafa first meet and what do they learn about each other?

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

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

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

7. What did you learn about Mustafa's trial in the pages 19-44?

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

9. How does the house of the narrator's grandfather look like?

10. How does the narrator's knowledge of Mustafa conflict with that of his acquaintances from the University of Khartoum?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Mustafa's widow and the narrator have a complicated relationship. How would you describe their relationship? Why is it complicated? Why are the complicated issues not resolved? How does this relation influence the life of both characters? How would you resolve a similar situation?

Essay Topic 3

"Season of Migration to the North" is basically a "story within a story". How can you tell this is the case? Use your own words to explain the story within the story in the book and find a few examples to support your explanation.

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