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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Back in Africa, why does Salim feel sympathy for the President?
(a) After seeing Europe, he thinks the President is right about Africa.
(b) After seeing Europe, he knows what the President is up against.
(c) After seeing Europe, he understands that the President is stupid.
(d) After seeing Europe, he wonders how the President can stand Africa.

2. Where does Salim go on his first airplane flight?
(a) London
(b) Uganda
(c) India
(d) The Capital

3. What do Salim and Yvette enjoy at the restaurant?
(a) The paintings on the wall
(b) The air conditioning and the wine
(c) The friendly staff
(d) The rich desserts

4. What does Raymond suggest is one of the President's greatest powers?
(a) Knowing who is real friends are
(b) Knowing when to pull back
(c) Getting rid of his opposition
(d) Looking far into the future

5. What does Salim hold onto in the face of all this corruption?
(a) He still believes in the power of the President.
(b) He contends that the President will appeal to the UN.
(c) He holds onto the idea of leaving the country.
(d) He remembers how things get bad and then get better.

6. What happens as a backlash against the corruption?
(a) A committee is sent to appeal to the President.
(b) Unknown people sabatoge the Police vehicles.
(c) The squatters from the villages refuse to leave their areas.
(d) There are assaults on police stations and statues are toppled.

7. What does Indar say his goal is now?
(a) To stay on the lecture circuit and make a fortune.
(b) To give the men hope, to give Africa better news about itself, and to start the true African revolution.
(c) To go into politics and run against the President.
(d) To write the book that Raymond is incapable of writing.

8. What does Salim have in his desk drawer?
(a) His last will and testament
(b) Rayond's articles
(c) Money to make a fast getaway
(d) Photos of Yvette

9. What happens at the end of Salim's visit to London?
(a) He finds a job and returns to sell his store.
(b) He severes all ties with Nazruddin and returns to Africa.
(c) He becomes engaged to Kareisha and leaves to go back to Africa.
(d) He is robbed of everything but his return flight ticket.

10. What does Yvette tell Salim about Indar?
(a) That he plans on going to America
(b) That he needs someone to think for him
(c) That he bored her to tears
(d) He had become an encumbrance that became a habit.

11. What is Indar's comment about Africa?
(a) Africa is too tribal to ever form stable governments.
(b) Native Africans are less intelligent than the Europeans.
(c) Africa is two thousand years behind the times.
(d) Indar says that Africa is full of refugees who are also first generation intellectuals.

12. What is the "Cult of Madonna?"
(a) The elevated position of women in the country.
(b) The state religion ordered by the President.
(c) A radical religious group who brainwash believers.
(d) The shrines set up as a tribute to the President's mother.

13. At the steamer, what does Salim notice about Ferdinand?
(a) That he is comfortable wherever he is.
(b) That he has grown dangerously thin.
(c) That he cannot do things for himself.
(d) That he is too shy to ask questions.

14. Reading some of Raymond's articles, what does Salim conclude?
(a) That Raymond is a genius as a writer
(b) That Raymond's book will be a best seller
(c) That Raymond had never visited the places he wrote about
(d) That Raymond will win the Nobel Prize for literature

15. What distresses Salim every time he drives the car?
(a) He has trouble finding petrol.
(b) He is not allowed to park anywhere.
(c) He has to pay a raod tax to the Police.
(d) He has to show his papers over and over, and they always want money.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the steamer finally leaves, why is Salim happy?

2. What has become of Raymond and Yvette?

3. What surprises Metty when Salim comes looking for him?

4. Why does Salim close his shop for three hours the day after the affair begins?

5. How does Salim reply to Nazruddin?

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