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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 does the narrator not want Mustafa to become for him?

2. What is stored in the strange triangular room of Mustafa's house?

3. What is Mustafa's last name?

4. Who is telling a story when the narrator arrives at his grandfather's house?

5. What is the narrator's response to the presumption about Mustafa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How can you tell that the village life seems unchanged to the narrator when he gets back after all those years?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did the narrator's companion on the train in Khartoum tell him about Mustafa and how did he react to this information?

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

The narrator does not finish the story of Mustafa Sa'eed. Why not? What is your interpretation? Were there indications throughout the book that Mustafa's story would not get finished? If so, give examples. How does the narrator's own story finish? What are your thoughts about the ending of the book?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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