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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years did Mustafa stay in his first school before going abroad the first time?
(a) Three years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Four months.
(d) Two years.

2. What does the subject turn to during the narrator's visit to the group of people, a month after the train conversation?
(a) Murder.
(b) Mixed drinks.
(c) Mixed marriages.
(d) Divorce.

3. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?
(a) His career with the government.
(b) His career with the army.
(c) The narrator's career.
(d) The weather.

4. What is the house of the narrator's grandfather made of?
(a) Wood.
(b) Brick.
(c) Palm leaves.
(d) Mud.

5. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?
(a) Four years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

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

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

8. What was the narrator's promise to Mustafa?
(a) Not to go into the triangular room.
(b) Not to take care of his sons.
(c) Not to talk about him.
(d) Not to talk about his mother.

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

10. What had instructions about what to do in the event of Mustafa's death?
(a) A postcard.
(b) A letter.
(c) A testament.
(d) A diary.

11. Which gift does Mustafa bring the narrator when he visits his house?
(a) Melons and bananas.
(b) Papayas and mangos.
(c) Bananas and oranges.
(d) Melons and oranges.

12. What does the narrator not want Mustafa to become for him?
(a) An example.
(b) A hero.
(c) A vague memory.
(d) An obsession.

13. Where did Mustafa first see Isabella Seymour?
(a) In a bar.
(b) At school.
(c) At a park.
(d) At a store.

14. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?
(a) He says he knew Mustafa as well.
(b) He says he doesn't know who Mustafa is.
(c) He listens.
(d) He smiles.

15. How did Mustafa feel when he grew up?
(a) Scared.
(b) Free.
(c) Sad.
(d) Tired.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who joins the narrator when he is drinking with Mahjoub one day?

4. How many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?

5. Who does the narrator talk to one day when taking the train?

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