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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's favorite tree?
(a) Acacia.
(b) Bonsai.
(c) Oak.
(d) Boabab.

2. What is the name of the river that runs through the village?
(a) Donau.
(b) Amazon.
(c) Schelde.
(d) Nile.

3. How does the narrator know about the legendary flooding of the Nile?
(a) He read about it.
(b) His mother told him.
(c) His father told him.
(d) Mustafa told him.

4. Where did Mustafa meet Jean Morris?
(a) In Dublin.
(b) In Khartoum.
(c) In Cairo.
(d) In Chelsea.

5. Who was the public prosecutor at Mustafa's trial?
(a) One of his teachers at Cairo.
(b) One of his friends from Cairo.
(c) One of his friends from Oxford.
(d) One of his teachers at Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator do after leaving Mustafa's house the night Mustafa told his story?

2. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?

3. In what has the narrator earned a doctorate?

4. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?

5. What does the subject turn to during the narrator's visit to the group of people, a month after the train conversation?

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