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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What season does the story take place?
(a) Fall
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) Spring

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daru hope the Arab is doing in the middle of the night?

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

3. When Daru returns back to the classroom, what is the Arab doing?

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

5. What does Daru put in his pocket before he goes into the next room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the character the Arab looks.

2. Why does Daru leave the decision as to his fate in the Arab's own hands?

3. How long does Daru estimate it will take the travelers to arrive at the schoolhouse from the first time he notices them?

4. When Daru gets up from lying on the couch what did he hope?

5. When Daru sits on his bed and looks into the Arab's face what does he see?

6. Why have the villagers stopped coming to the schoolhouse?

7. What happens when Daru wakens the Arab?

8. Describe the setting near the schoolhouse.

9. What will happen if the Arab chooses the nomads?

10. Why does Balducci warn Daru to keep his gun close?

(see the answer keys)

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