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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Belgian clerk upset?
(a) He cannot find his glasses.
(b) He is sick and there is no doctor.
(c) He thinks conditions are too difficult to tolerate.
(d) He thinks Father Huismans is stealing from the lycee.

2. What begins happening to the town as the area becomes more peaceful?
(a) Villagers no longer visit the town.
(b) The townspeople begin cleaning up the town.
(c) There is a flood and the town is all but wiped out.
(d) Villagers return and many of them stay.

3. What is Ferdinand's reaction when Salim wants him to take a book back to the lycee?
(a) He says it isn't his job.
(b) He wants to read the book first.
(c) He gets angry and refuses to do it.
(d) He throws the book in the river.

4. What ends the budding war?
(a) Jailing all the village army leaders
(b) Bombs dropped in the bush
(c) Pay offs to the villages
(d) Mass executions

5. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?
(a) To do Nazruddin a favor
(b) To break away from his family
(c) To get away from persecution
(d) For a chance to study

Short Answer Questions

1. On his trip to the central part of Africa, who stops Salim often for money or supplies?

2. What is Salim's ethnic background?

3. Who is the narrator of the story?

4. What does Father Huismans do almost immediately after the threat of war is over?

5. How had Nazruddin come into possession of the store?

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