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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 70-87.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Sudanese independence?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1950s.

2. What does the narrator's father do when he has tea with his family again?
(a) He recites verses from the Koran.
(b) He eats cake.
(c) He recites verses from the Bible.
(d) He tells a few stories.

3. How was Mustafa presented at his trial?
(a) As a suicidal man.
(b) As a young murderer.
(c) As an unintelligent student.
(d) As a young genius.

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

5. What does the narrator talk about when he returns to the village he grew up in?
(a) The steamer that travels on the Nile.
(b) A donkey.
(c) His new love affair.
(d) Mustafa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator miss most during his absence in the village?

2. How did Mustafa feel when he grew up?

3. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?

4. When did legendary flooding of the Nile occur?

5. What was presumed about Mustafa by the group of people the narrator talks to?

(see the answer key)

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