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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daru make for his visitors?
(a) Tea
(b) A meal
(c) Coffee
(d) Heated porridge

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

3. What does Daru do after they finish eating?
(a) Makes more tea for the Arab
(b) Reads to the Arab
(c) Takes the Arab's temperature
(d) Makes a bed for the Arab

4. What does the Arab ask Daru if he is?
(a) The jury
(b) The warden
(c) The judge
(d) The police

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

6. How long did people hide the Arab?
(a) One month
(b) One year
(c) One week
(d) One day

7. What does Daru tell the Arab to do in his own language?
(a) Leave
(b) Stay
(c) Wait
(d) Go

8. Which direction does Daru head?
(a) He stays at the plateau
(b) Toward Tinguit
(c) Back to the schoolhouse
(d) Toward the Nomads

9. What does Daru find as he finds his way back to the schoolhouse after hearing sounds?
(a) Balducci
(b) Arab's family
(c) Animals
(d) Nothing

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

11. When Daru looks back at the Arab the first time, what does he see?
(a) The Arab walking toward Tinguit
(b) Nothing
(c) The Arab standing still
(d) The Arab walking toward the Nomads

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

13. How long did the men walk before they stopped to rest?
(a) One hour
(b) Two and a half hours
(c) Two hours
(d) Half an hour

14. How long did the drought last before the blizzard began?
(a) 9 months
(b) 7 months
(c) 10 months
(d) 8 months

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which direction did the two men head after they were finished with their rest?

2. What is the name of the village nearest the schoolhouse?

3. What awes Daru as he rests with the Arab?

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

5. Who is considered the protagonist of this story?

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