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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 narrator's response to the presumption about Mustafa?

2. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?

3. What does the narrator's father do when he has tea with his family again?

4. Where did the narrator stay during his absence in the village?

5. What did Mustafa do as the first Sudanese?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened on the train one day, when the narrator works at the Department of Education in Khartoum?

2. How can you relate the narrator to the Acacia tree?

3. What did Mustafa want for his sons?

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

5. What did Mustafa do after he was released from prison?

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

7. What is being said about Western women during a conversation at the grandfather's house?

8. What did Mustafa's school career look like?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the narrator returns to his Sudanese village, after an absence of seven years, everybody is happy about this event. How do you know this? How is the narrator's happiness to be back in the village expressed in the book? How do you know his family and friends are happy he is back? Describe their actions and feelings. Use evidence from the book. Give a few other examples of how happiness can be expressed in literature.

Essay Topic 2

"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.

Essay Topic 3

Agriculture is very important in an African village like the one the narrator grows up in. Why is this important? How do you know it is important? Who refers to it in the book and what is discussed? What is the Agricultural Project Committee and Co-operative? Who were important members of it? How do you relate Mahjoub's influence to this Committee? What does Mustafa have to do with the Committee? What do the Committee and the subject of agriculture have to do with Mahjoub and Mustafa's relationship? How does Mahjoub feel towards Mustafa? Why? Relate these two characters to the Agricultural Project Committee and Co'operative.

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