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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which people occupied the Sudan in the past?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The English.
(d) The French.
2. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?
(a) That he was a brilliant teacher.
(b) That he killed many women.
(c) That he was the most brilliant student.
(d) That he was a fair student.
3. What did the narrator do after leaving Mustafa's house the night Mustafa told his story?
(a) He visits his grandfather.
(b) He wanders around.
(c) He goes home.
(d) He goes for a swim.
4. What was the name of the college Mustafa went to in the Sudan?
(a) Graham Collage.
(b) Khartoum Collage.
(c) Oxford Collage.
(d) Gordon Collage.
5. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he lost his wife.
(b) That he moved.
(c) That he lost his children.
(d) That he drowned.
6. What was the narrator's promise to Mustafa?
(a) Not to take care of his sons.
(b) Not to go into the triangular room.
(c) Not to talk about him.
(d) Not to talk about his mother.
7. How long has the narrator been gone before returning to his village in Africa?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Eight years.
(c) Six years
(d) Five years.
8. 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 an intelligent professor.
(d) That he was happily married.
9. What did Mustafa cause to other young women?
(a) Disease.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Love of life.
(d) Hunger.
10. Who waits for the narrator each time he arrived back in his childhood village?
(a) His father and his friends.
(b) Just his father.
(c) His father and other family members.
(d) Just his friends.
11. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?
(a) He smiles.
(b) He listens.
(c) He says he doesn't know who Mustafa is.
(d) He says he knew Mustafa as well.
12. What is stored in the strange triangular room of Mustafa's house?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A testament.
(c) A key and a message.
(d) Papers and diaries.
13. Who is Sa'eed?
(a) The shopkeeper.
(b) Mustafa's brother.
(c) Mustafa's helper.
(d) The mechanic.
14. Who was Mustafa's only relative?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.
15. Who invited the narrator to lunch as the group left grandfather's house?
(a) Bint Mazjoub.
(b) Wad Prayers.
(c) Mustafa Sa'eed.
(d) Wad Rayyes.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?
2. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?
3. How many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?
4. Which gift does Mustafa bring the narrator when he visits his house?
5. With who did they banter back and forth about their sexual exploits at grandfather's house?
This section contains 500 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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