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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) He lost his house.
(b) He got married.
(c) He didn't return home.
(d) He saved a lot of people.

4. Why did Mustafa marry Jean?
(a) Because he wanted her money.
(b) Because she wanted children.
(c) Because she wanted to get married.
(d) Because he loved her very much.

5. How many months a year dioesthe narrator spend in the village he grew up in?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

6. How did Jean Morris end her life?
(a) She shot herself.
(b) She gassed herself.
(c) She took a fatal dose of medicines.
(d) She hung herself.

7. Who is Sa'eed?
(a) Mustafa's helper.
(b) Mustafa's brother.
(c) The shopkeeper.
(d) The mechanic.

8. How did an influential man once appear before Mustafa?
(a) In a car.
(b) On a mule.
(c) On horseback.
(d) On a bike.

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

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

11. Who did Wad want to marry?
(a) The widow of Mustafa Sa'eed.
(b) The wife of the narrator.
(c) Bint Mazjoub.
(d) The narrator's mother.

12. What did the narrator do after leaving Mustafa's house the night Mustafa told his story?
(a) He goes home.
(b) He visits his grandfather.
(c) He goes for a swim.
(d) He wanders around.

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

14. What did this influential man do to Mustafa?
(a) He took him to school.
(b) He beat him.
(c) He gave him a gift.
(d) He offered him tea.

15. What was the name of the college Mustafa went to in the Sudan?
(a) Khartoum Collage.
(b) Gordon Collage.
(c) Oxford Collage.
(d) Graham Collage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who should be given the key to the triangular room eventually?

2. What is left for the narrator when Mustafa disappeared?

3. What did Mustafa do as the first Sudanese?

4. What did the grandfather splurge on?

5. When was the last time Mustafa saw his mother?

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