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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weather event has just occurred at the beginning of the story?
(a) A three-year flood
(b) A three-year drought
(c) A three-day rainstorm
(d) A three-day blizzard

2. What does the Arab ask Daru?
(a) If he will go to police headquarters with him
(b) If he will hurt him
(c) If he will shoot him
(d) If he will let him go

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

4. Who is expected to take the Arab to these destinations?
(a) Daru
(b) El Ameur
(c) Balducci
(d) He is to travel alone

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Daru say he will wait for before he will take the Arab to the next destination?
(a) The snow to melt
(b) New supplies
(c) A declaration of war
(d) Another blizzard

11. When Daru looks back toward the Arab a second time, what does he see?
(a) The Arab walking toward Tinguit
(b) The Arab staring at him
(c) Balducci heading toward the Arab
(d) The Arab walking toward the Nomads

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

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

14. Which direction did the two men head after they were finished with their rest?
(a) North
(b) South
(c) West
(d) East

15. Who does Daru think of as he looks out over the deserted land beyond the plateau?
(a) His students
(b) Balducci
(c) The Arab
(d) The police station

Short Answer Questions

1. Which direction is it to Tinguit?

2. What is the weather like when the two men wake up in the morning?

3. Who would be waiting for the Arab in the East?

4. What does Balducci want Daru to sign?

5. What does the Arab ask Daru if he is?

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