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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What venture does Mahesh undertake that worries Salim?

3. How does the President manage the war in the town and surrounding area?

4. Why do other boys from the lycee come to see Salim?

5. Why does Salim buy the store from Nazruddin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what made Mahesh's wooden spoon venture a failure.

2. What is happening with the town shortly after Salim arrives?

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

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

5. What is Salim's assessment of Father Huismans?

6. Why does Salim's family send the slave, Metty, to him?

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

8. How does Ferdinand become a burden on Salim?

9. Why is Indar edgy after the party?

10. Why does Ferdinand ask the question about African religion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on your opinion about how dictatorships are formed. Use Raymond's influence over the President that saw him enter the army as a young man, rise to the top in the military, and end up taking control of the whole country. Do you agree that this is a fairly accurate depiction of how dictators gain power through the military?

Essay Topic 2

Take the old saying, "It takes one to know one," and compare it to the meeting of Indar and Mahesh and his wife, Shoba. In Chapter 6, Metty recognizes a slave girl when she keeps coming to the store looking for him. Write an essay about how people can spot the faults in others that they have in themselves.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper expressing your feelings about living in a free society as opposed to the picture of life in A BEND IN THE RIVER. Enumerate the things you enjoy that Salim and the people in the town did not. Use the idea of a thirty-year-old man attending his first party where there were women present as one of your points.

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