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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Daru do while the Arab washes up?
(a) Loads his guns with ammunition
(b) Tidies up his bedroom
(c) Washes the dishes
(d) Reads

3. What does Daru feel when the Arab coughs behind him?
(a) Relief
(b) Weariness
(c) Peace
(d) Fury

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

5. To what city is the Arab to be taken?
(a) El Ameur
(b) Tinguit
(c) Tadjad
(d) Schoolhouse

6. Where did Daru request to be stationed after the war?
(a) With many other people
(b) The base of the foothills
(c) In the village
(d) Post in the furtherest north post

7. What does Balducci give Daru before he leaves?
(a) Supplies
(b) Restraints
(c) An extra gun
(d) A horse

8. Where does Daru put the gun when he is cooking?
(a) In his pocket
(b) Under his bed
(c) Next to him on the counter
(d) In his desk in the classroom

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

10. Many of Daru's students are from what type of family?
(a) Rich
(b) Poor
(c) Well-educated
(d) Monks

11. What does Daru hope the Arab is doing in the middle of the night?
(a) Going to the restroom
(b) Making food
(c) Going to the police headquarters
(d) Running away

12. Where in that city is the Arab to be taken?
(a) Police headquarters
(b) Another schoolhouse
(c) His cousins
(d) A family's home

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

14. Where are the villages in relation to the schoolhouse?
(a) The schoolhouse is not near any villages
(b) Beside the schoolhouse
(c) Above the schoolhouse
(d) Beneath the schoolhouse

15. As Balducci prepares to leave, what does he want to do that Daru tells him not to bother doing?
(a) Cleaning up the mess
(b) Handcuffing the Arab
(c) Making more tea
(d) Tying the Arab's hands

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daru make for his visitors?

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

3. What does the Arab ask Daru?

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

5. When Daru looks back at the Arab the first time, what does he see?

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