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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What contraband does one boy leave at Salim's shop?
(a) Money gotten on a black market exchange
(b) Gold nuggets
(c) A book that belongs to the lycee
(d) Some carved ivory

2. Fearful of the growth of the town, what happens among the villagers?
(a) They begin to fear it and talk of destroying it rises again.
(b) They are pushed further and further into the outskirts.
(c) The villagers dislike the increased population but do not return to the villages.
(d) The villagers see an opportunity for business.

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

4. How does Mahesh finally make it big?
(a) He finds a gold mine.
(b) He takes over the lycee after Father Huismans' death.
(c) He opens a Bigburger franchise.
(d) He starts a pawn shop.

5. At the party what does Salim see couples doing?
(a) Staying apart
(b) Drinking
(c) Eating
(d) Dancing

6. What does the President do at a ruined suburb?
(a) He builds a shoe factory.
(b) He builds a large complex.
(c) He levels it and makes a park.
(d) He builds a new barracks for his army.

7. Why does Zabeth have a strange odor about her person?
(a) It is a trait of her village tribe.
(b) She runs a slaughterhouse in the village.
(c) She uses it to keep people away for her protection.
(d) She has been without soap until Salim reopens the shop.

8. From where does the name Metty come?
(a) From a corruption of the English word, middle
(b) From a story about Methuselah, the oldest man
(c) From a Portuguese word meaning metal
(d) From a French word, mestise, which means of mixed race

9. Why did the slaves on the east coast not desire freedom?
(a) They had never known anything else.
(b) They had no place to go.
(c) They were paid wages for their work.
(d) They became part of the family that owned them.

10. Who is the hostess Salim meets at the party?
(a) Zabeth's sister
(b) Claudette
(c) Yvette
(d) Shoba

11. What does Salim see as the contradiction in Father Huismans?
(a) He likes things African but he does not like Africans.
(b) He professes poverty but he amasses a fortune.
(c) He heads a school but he hates students.
(d) He teaches religion but he has lost his faith.

12. What African artifacts interest Father Huismans the most?
(a) Those made of ivory
(b) Those that are more modern
(c) Those made for African religious purposes
(d) Those that have no religious significance

13. What was wrong with Mahesh's engraving machine that makes signs?
(a) It was impossible to assemble.
(b) He could not get the raw materials to make the signs.
(c) No one needed signs.
(d) The machine was too complicated for him to operate.

14. What is Ferdinand's question at Indar's lecture?
(a) He asks if the New Africa will be united across the continent.
(b) He asks whether a New Africa could include old African religion.
(c) He asks how it could be possible to have a New Africa.
(d) He asks if the New Africa will be a democracy.

15. What does Salim explain to Indar after the lecture?
(a) That Ferdinand's mother is a magician
(b) That Ferdinand does not understand the concept of a New Africa
(c) That Ferdinand is an atheist
(d) That Ferdinand likes to stir up trouble

Short Answer Questions

1. What ends the budding war?

2. Who sold him the store he is going to run?

3. What does Salim remember as being outside his hometown?

4. Where has Salim come from as the story opens?

5. Why had the town been destroyed during the war?

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