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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Mustafa do as the first Sudanese?
(a) Marry a French woman.
(b) Marry an English woman.
(c) Marry only one woman at a time.
(d) Marry an Egyptian woman.

3. What is the name of the narrator's favorite tree?
(a) Bonsai.
(b) Oak.
(c) Acacia.
(d) Boabab.

4. How many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

5. When did legendary flooding of the Nile occur?
(a) Never.
(b) Every 100 years.
(c) Every 20 or 30 years.
(d) Every 40 or 50 years.

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

7. Who should be given the key to the triangular room eventually?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Mustafa's wife.
(c) Mustafa's sons.
(d) Mustafa's mother.

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

9. When were rooms added to the grandfather's house?
(a) Only when extra money was available.
(b) When other rooms were destroyed.
(c) When needed or when extra money was available.
(d) Only when needed.

10. What did Mustafa cause to other young women?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Love of life.
(d) Disease.

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

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

13. Who waits for the narrator each time he arrived back in his childhood village?
(a) Just his father.
(b) Just his friends.
(c) His father and his friends.
(d) His father and other family members.

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

15. Who is the narrator guardian of?
(a) Wad's children.
(b) Mustafa's children.
(c) Wad's sister.
(d) Mustafa's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mustafa do when this influential man appeared?

2. What does the narrator's sister think about Western women?

3. What did Mustafa suffer from?

4. How often did the steamer come to the narrator's childhood village?

5. What had instructions about what to do in the event of Mustafa's death?

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