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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 116-133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator talk to one day when taking the train?
(a) His brother.
(b) A retired civil servant.
(c) A retired lawyer.
(d) His father.

2. What killed Wad and Hosna?
(a) A knife.
(b) A rope.
(c) Medicines.
(d) A gun.

3. Who met the narrator when he arrived back into the village by steamer?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) Mustafa's sons.
(c) His father.
(d) His friend Mahjoub.

4. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) He got married.
(b) He saved a lot of people.
(c) He lost his house.
(d) He didn't return home.

5. Who invited the narrator to lunch as the group left grandfather's house?
(a) Wad Prayers.
(b) Mustafa Sa'eed.
(c) Wad Rayyes.
(d) Bint Mazjoub.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why could Mahjoub not question the conference delegate?

2. Why did the narrator go back to the village after leaving by car?

3. When were rooms added to the grandfather's house?

4. What religion did they talk about at the grandfather's house?

5. Who tried to prevent the tragedy at Wad's house?

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