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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 134-165.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had the key to Mustafa's special room?
(a) Mustafa's children.
(b) The narrator's friend Mahjoub.
(c) Hosna.
(d) The narrator.

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

3. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?
(a) Because he gets offered a job.
(b) Because he meets the narrator.
(c) Because he falls in love with a woman.
(d) Because he likes it.

4. What did this influential man do to Mustafa?
(a) He offered him tea.
(b) He beat him.
(c) He took him to school.
(d) He gave him a gift.

5. When did legendary flooding of the Nile occur?
(a) Every 100 years.
(b) Every 40 or 50 years.
(c) Never.
(d) Every 20 or 30 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the college Mustafa went to in the Sudan?

2. How was Mustafa presented at his trial?

3. What is left for the narrator when Mustafa disappeared?

4. How many siblings does Mustafa have?

5. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?

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