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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose voice did the narrator hear when he walked by his grandfather's house?
(a) His grandmother's.
(b) His father's.
(c) Mustafa's.
(d) His grandfather's.

2. How long did it take Mustafa to learn to write?
(a) Two days.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Four weeks.

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

4. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he moved.
(b) That he drowned.
(c) That he lost his children.
(d) That he lost his wife.

5. What is the name of the strange man in the village?
(a) Koran.
(b) Mahmoud.
(c) Mahjoub.
(d) Mustafa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?

3. What is the narrator's response to the presumption about Mustafa?

4. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?

5. What does the narrator's father do when he has tea with his family again?

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