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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. How did the narrator enter the triangular room?

2. Who had the key to Mustafa's special room?

3. Where did the narrator go to after leaving Mustafa's house?

4. Who asked for a cigarette when the narrator and his driver are out in the hot sun?

5. Where did Mrs. Robinson live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who met the narrator when he arrives by steamer, not too long after he had left, and what do they talk about?

2. The narrator never finished his story about Mustafa. How would you end this story?

3. What was Wad Reyyes' reaction when the narrator told him Hosna's reaction to the idea of marriage?

4. What does Hosna tell the narrator about Mustafa when he visited her one day?

5. What did the narrator do with the triangular room, after he's finished there?

6. Describe how the narrator left the village again after his conversations with Hosna and Mahjoub.

7. What had happened to Hosna and Wad while the narrator was away from the village?

8. What were all the things that are tangled up, according to the narrator?

9. What did the narrator do when he approaches the triangular room?

10. Who did the narrator and his driver run into during the car trip and what happens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Mustafa was a child, a man on horseback appeared. How does this event change Mustafa's life? How did he react to this man? What were the consequences? How did this man influence Mustafa? How was Mustafa different from the other children? Describe the meeting between the man on the horse and Mustafa and relate it to Mustafa's further childhood and adulthood.

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

Throughout the book, a lot of people talk about Mustafa to the narrator. Summarize the information the narrator collects about Mustafa. Who does the narrator meet that talks to him about Mustafa? In which circumstances does this happen? What does the narrator learn about Mustafa? What is being said? How does he react to this information? What is said about Mustafa that is contradictory with the narrator's information? Who, of all these people with information, actually met Mustafa in person? Why do you think all these people talk about Mustafa and praise him? How do you think the narrator feels about this?

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