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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 61-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Mustafa's only relative?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His mother.

2. What did Mustafa cause to other young women?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Disease.
(c) Love of life.
(d) Suicide.

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 is left for the narrator when Mustafa disappeared?
(a) A message and a testament.
(b) A key and a message.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A key and a testament.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator travel back to the village from the steamer?

2. Who is Sa'eed?

3. What had instructions about what to do in the event of Mustafa's death?

4. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?

5. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?

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