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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 116-133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator think Mustafa died?
(a) By drowning or disease.
(b) By disease or suffocation.
(c) By disease or suicide.
(d) By drowning or suicide.

2. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?
(a) Mahmoud.
(b) Mustafa.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Sa'eed.

3. What was presumed about Mustafa by the group of people the narrator talks to?
(a) That he was dead.
(b) That he was a millionaire.
(c) That he was happily married.
(d) That he was an intelligent professor.

4. With who did they banter back and forth about their sexual exploits at grandfather's house?
(a) With the village leaders.
(b) With the old men.
(c) With the old women.
(d) With the neighbors.

5. What were tribal women that Western women are not?
(a) Smart.
(b) Circumcised.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Stupid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which war did Mustafa write comments about in the letter to the narrator?

2. Why did the narrator and his driver stop by a government car?

3. Who did the villagers blame for not getting the project they worked on finished?

4. Where did the narrator stay during his absence in the village?

5. What religion did they talk about at the grandfather's house?

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