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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Javier, the man with whom Arthur spends the night in Paris?
(a) 49.
(b) 24.
(c) 62.
(d) 36.

2. Besides Arthur, who else celebrates a birthday during the group's journey across Morocco?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Zohra.
(c) Carlos.
(d) Kevin.

3. What incorrect term does Arthur use to refer to himself during his introduction to his university students?
(a) Professor.
(b) Colonel.
(c) Docent.
(d) Instructor.

4. Rather than considering himself German, what nationality does Bastian call his own?
(a) American.
(b) Swiss.
(c) Italian.
(d) Bavarian.

5. Zohra tries to get Arthur and Lewis to make a pact with her to give up romance and to take what other action?
(a) To quit Facebook.
(b) To meet in Marrakech every year.
(c) To get fat.
(d) To write to one another.

6. What question does the pastor encourage Arthur to ask himself whenever something during his stay seems to him strange or foolish?
(a) Why?
(b) Who?
(c) What?
(d) When?

7. What does the princess next door to the Moroccan riad's pool do in order to express her displeasure with the late-night noise being made by Arthur's party?
(a) She snaps her fingers.
(b) She throws rocks into the pool.
(c) She claps three times.
(d) She clicks her tongue.

8. When Robert says that poetry "kills you now" (106), what does he say that poetry is later?
(a) Food.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Trash.

9. Where does the Parisian party at which Finley attacks Arthur's work take place?
(a) On the avenue Montaigne.
(b) On the rue du Bac.
(c) On the rue des Rosiers.
(d) On the rue Bonaparte.

10. When Freddy expresses to Arthur that he has always wanted to visit Tahiti, Arthur rejects the idea on the grounds that Tahiti seems too what?
(a) Touristy.
(b) Superficial.
(c) Normal.
(d) Resorty.

11. A group of people of what nationality barge their way past everyone else in the immigration line upon Arthur's arrival in Marrakech?
(a) Japanese.
(b) South African.
(c) Italian.
(d) French.

12. The writer's retreat attended by Arthur in India is on a hill above which sea?
(a) The Black Sea.
(b) The Dead Sea.
(c) The Arabian Sea.
(d) The Caspian Sea.

13. What object is given to Arthur at the prize ceremony in Italy?
(a) A watch.
(b) A golden statuette.
(c) A trip to New York City.
(d) A book of poetry.

14. Which of Arthur's friends meets him in Marrakech and takes him to the site where the caravan will begin its journey across Morocco?
(a) Zohra.
(b) Finley.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Carlos.

15. How many days away is Arthur's birthday once he arrives in Morocco?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Zohra's former lover, whose place on the trip Arthur took when she and Zohra broke up?

2. At whose suggestion does Arthur attend the writer's retreat in India?

3. Upon seeing Lewis again, Arthur describes him as being as what "as ever"? (163)

4. When Arthur's neighbor sees him climb through his apartment window, she is not alarmed since "she knows he is not a thief" and is "clearly just" (108) a what?

5. What adverb does the narrator use to describe the way in which the camel carries Arthur across the desert?

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