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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Indar take Salim after dinner one evening?
(a) To the movies
(b) To his apartment in the Domain
(c) To a parade of cadets
(d) To a party

2. Who was Salim expecting when Metty led Indar into the store?
(a) Someone about to make a claim on him in the name of family, community, or religion.
(b) Some member of the army come to extort money or supplies.
(c) Someone looking for a job or a handout.
(d) Metty's wife and new baby.

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

4. How does Salim find the town when he arrives?
(a) It is beginning to prosper.
(b) It is more than half destroyed from the revolution.
(c) The President has put money into the town's recovery.
(d) Many new shops and houses are under construction.

5. 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) They never wrote anything down.
(c) All their records were destroyed in the revolution.
(d) The people were illiterate.

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

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

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

9. 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

10. How long had two slave families been with Salim's family?
(a) Three generations
(b) Over one hundred years
(c) From the time Salim was born
(d) Five years

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

12. What is the clear difference between Salim and Father Huismans, aside from religion?
(a) Salim likes women but Huismans prefers boys
(b) Father Huismans is an optimist but Salim is pessimistic.
(c) Salim knows business but the Father cannot administer the school
(d) Father Huismans is young but Salim is old

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

14. What is the social occasion between Salim, Shoba, and Mahesh?
(a) A dinner
(b) A party
(c) A church service
(d) A concert

15. Who is the narrator of the story?
(a) Metty
(b) Ferdinand
(c) Raymond
(d) Salim

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Salim go to see at the lycee?

2. Who is the hostess Salim meets at the party?

3. How does Mahesh finally make it big?

4. What does Salim observe when he visits the Domain?

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

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