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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 45-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jean Morris end her life?
(a) She shot herself.
(b) She hung herself.
(c) She took a fatal dose of medicines.
(d) She gassed herself.

2. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?
(a) Mustafa.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Mahmoud.
(d) Sa'eed.

3. Who does the narrator visit a month after the conversation on the train?
(a) Some people from the Department of Education.
(b) Some people from the Department of Agriculture.
(c) Some people from the University in Cairo.
(d) Some people from the University in Khartoum.

4. Who is Sa'eed?
(a) The mechanic.
(b) The shopkeeper.
(c) Mustafa's helper.
(d) Mustafa's brother.

5. What is the narrator's response to the presumption about Mustafa?
(a) That he was an intelligent professor.
(b) That he was happily married.
(c) That he was a millionaire.
(d) That he's dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did legendary flooding of the Nile occur?

2. Where is Mustafa from?

3. In what has the narrator earned a doctorate?

4. Whose voice did the narrator hear when he walked by his grandfather's house?

5. How old is the strange man in the village the narrator is curious about?

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