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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Salim's ethnic background?
(a) Salim is half Arab and half European.
(b) His family came from the Arabian penninsula.
(c) He is Arab with African blood from his grandmother.
(d) His family from northwest India is considered Arab.

2. Why is there no history of the Arabs in the country on the east coast of Africa?
(a) The Arabs thought histories are unimportant.
(b) All their records were destroyed in the revolution.
(c) They never wrote anything down.
(d) The people were illiterate.

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

4. What does Zabeth represent to Salim?
(a) Only a chance to make money from her
(b) Inferiority
(c) Back woods ignorance
(d) Authentic Africa

5. Where is Father Huismans when Salim calls on him?
(a) Up on the roof, repairing some damage
(b) On one of his trips into the bush
(c) In the room where he keeps his collection of masks.
(d) Outside playing football with the boys

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father Huismans think about the future of Africa?

2. What does Salim learn about Zabeth's family?

3. What does Salim see as the contradiction in Father Huismans?

4. Who is Salim's first customer?

5. Where does Father Huismans keep his collection of African artifacts?

(see the answer key)

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