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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the President manage the war in the town and surrounding area?
(a) He calls in United Nations peace keepers.
(b) He moves his capital to the town.
(c) He conscripts the villagers into his own army.
(d) He sends mercenaries who shoot two of the army officers.

2. How does the purser on the steamer show that he does not respect the President?
(a) He puts a cloth over the President's portrait.
(b) He sneers every time the President is mentioned.
(c) He sits down when the national anthem is played.
(d) He speaks French which the President has banned.

3. What comes down the river in a dugout?
(a) Barges of rusty military equipment.
(b) Food and supplies for the lycee.
(c) The mutilated body of Father Huismans with a severed head.
(d) Father Huismans arranges for a shipment of masks.

4. Where has Salim come from as the story opens?
(a) South Africa
(b) The Sudan
(c) The east coast of Africa
(d) India

5. Why do other boys from the lycee come to see Salim?
(a) They try to buy Salim's car.
(b) They want him to send them to America to study.
(c) The want Salim to take Ferdinand out of their school.
(d) They are looking for jobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What venture does Mahesh undertake that worries Salim?

2. Why is there no history of the Arabs in the country on the east coast of Africa?

3. Where is Nazruddin thinking of moving his family?

4. From where does the name Metty come?

5. After Father Huismans' death, what prediction of his comes about?

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