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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Salim's childhood friend who is going to England to study?
(a) Metty
(b) Mahesh
(c) Indar
(d) Ferdinand

3. Why is Shoba fearful?
(a) Mahesh has been spending a lot of time with a woman.
(b) She cannot sleep at night for fear of burglars.
(c) Mahesh may be conscripted into the army.
(d) Her brothers had vowed to throw acid in her face and kill Mahesh.

4. What request does Ferdinand make of Salim?
(a) He asks Salim to send him to school in America.
(b) He asks Salim to let him work in the store and quit school.
(c) He asks Salim to find him a wife.
(d) He asks Salim to buy him a car.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion goes through Salim now when he sees or thinks about Ferdinand?

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

3. What happens to change the relationship between Salim and Metty?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Father Huismans is not at the lycee when Salim goes to return the book?

2. What is the problem that arises over a book?

3. Describe the reunion of Salim and Indar.

4. What does Salim observe about the foreigners at the Domain?

5. How do Salim and Metty begin to react with Ferdinand?

6. Explain why Zabeth brings Ferdinand to see Salim.

7. Describe Mahesh and his desire to strike it rich.

8. Explain how the reader understands that Salim is inexperienced with women.

9. What happens to stop the impending threat of war in the area surrounding the town?

10. Explain the change in the relationship between Salim and Metty.

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