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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Arab do in the middle of the night?
(a) Gets up and goes to the shed
(b) Gets up and makes food
(c) Runs away
(d) Gets up and takes the gun

2. How does Daru feel after reading the message on the blackboard?
(a) Weary
(b) Alone
(c) Angry
(d) Relieved

3. What is the schoolmaster watching out the schoolhouse window?
(a) Two men approaching the school
(b) One man approaching the school
(c) A blizzard
(d) A horse making its way up the hillside

4. What surrounds Daru where he is now?
(a) Stones
(b) Many people
(c) Lots of water
(d) Wheat fields

5. Why prevents the Arab from taking the tea from Daru at first?
(a) His bound hands
(b) His fever
(c) He does not like tea
(d) He refuses the tea

6. How did Balducci leave the schoolhouse?
(a) He couldn't leave
(b) Camelback
(c) Horseback
(d) Walking

7. What does Daru not want to do?
(a) Continue as teacher at the schoolhouse
(b) Talk to the Arab
(c) Walk in the snow
(d) Turn the Arab into the police

8. How far of a walk would it be to reach the Nomads?
(a) 1 day
(b) 2 day
(c) 1 hour
(d) 2 hours

9. What lies in the southern direction when the plateau slopes?
(a) Low plain with a few trees
(b) The schoolhouse
(c) Outcropping of rocks and a chaotic looking landscape
(d) Tinguit itself

10. How many students are still in Daru's classroom as the two men approach?
(a) 2
(b) 0
(c) 5
(d) 10

11. What does Daru hold out for the Arab?
(a) The paperwork Balducci gave him
(b) Package of clothes
(c) Guns
(d) Package of food

12. When Daru returns back to the classroom, what is the Arab doing?
(a) Lying down staring at the ceiling
(b) Sitting drinking tea
(c) Sitting down and eating a snack
(d) Lying down reading

13. What is there talk of in the area, which requires Balducci to return right away?
(a) A new blizzard
(b) An attack on the schoolhouse
(c) A murder
(d) A revolt

14. Which of the following did not occur during the drought?
(a) Sheep died by the thousands
(b) Men died
(c) Earth was scorched
(d) Wheat supplies did not reach the school

15. Who would be waiting for the Arab in the south?
(a) Balducci
(b) Family
(c) Nomads
(d) Police

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Daru think of as he looks out over the deserted land beyond the plateau?

2. How long did the drought last before the blizzard began?

3. How far of a walk is it to Tinguit?

4. When Daru looks back toward the Arab a second time, what does he see?

5. What does Daru do after he leaves the Arab and walks into the next room?

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