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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way is Salim optimistic about the town?
(a) He thinks it will grow back if the peace holds.
(b) He thinks he will be able to build his business and sell it.
(c) He sees that it is in a strategic place for development.
(d) He sees that the youth are being educated.

2. 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 starts a pawn shop.
(d) He opens a Bigburger franchise.

3. What does Indar say about Raymond?
(a) He is never seen at the Domain.
(b) He is the President's brother-in-law.
(c) He is very wise for one so young,
(d) He is the President's white man.

4. Moving deeper into Africa, what crosses Salim's mind?
(a) He fears he did not bring enough supplies.
(b) He questions whether he knows how to run a store.
(c) He debates turning around and going back to the coast.
(d) He wonders if he had made a mistake.

5. What does Salim remember as being outside his hometown?
(a) Slave stockades
(b) Dense jungles
(c) A large cemetery
(d) Army barracks

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

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

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

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

10. What venture does Mahesh undertake that worries Salim?
(a) He opens a taxi service.
(b) He starts trading with the army.
(c) He makes elixers for illnesses.
(d) He makes a contract with the President.

11. What accompanies Salim's paperwork when he goes to get a consignment from customs?
(a) A voucher for free goods from Salim's store
(b) A bodyguard
(c) A five hundred franc note
(d) An affadavit from the police

12. Who sold him the store he is going to run?
(a) Zabeth
(b) Nazruddin
(c) Mahesh
(d) Indar

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

14. What do the villagers do that becomes a threat to the town?
(a) They begin to build bonfires that threaten to set fire to the town.
(b) They bring their contageous people to stay in the town.
(c) They demonstrate in the streets every day.
(d) They form an army and move it into the town.

15. What is the difference between Salim and Indar as they walk to the river after the party?
(a) Salim is exhilarated by the evening but Indar is edgy.
(b) Salim is confused, but Indar is sure of himself.
(c) Indar sees the beauty of the place while Salim sees only garbage.
(d) Indar wants to meditate but Salim wants to talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the slave that Salim's family sends to stay with him?

2. What does Indar lecture about when Salim attends his class?

3. When Salim finally meets with Father Huismans, what does he see?

4. Fearful of the growth of the town, what happens among the villagers?

5. Who is Salim's childhood friend who is going to England to study?

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