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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator feel towards Mustafa while in the triangular room?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Love.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Jealousy.

2. What did the narrator decide to do when he gets caught in something?
(a) To die.
(b) To eat.
(c) To think.
(d) To live.

3. How did the narrator feel about Hosna?
(a) He didn't particularly like her.
(b) He was in love with her.
(c) He hated her.
(d) He liked her as a friend.

4. When did the narrator go see his sister?
(a) On the first day of his visit.
(b) On the second day of his visit.
(c) On the fourth day of his visit.
(d) On the third day of his visit.

5. Where did the narrator go the day after he hears about Wad's marriage plans?
(a) To the house of Mustafa Sa'eed.
(b) To the house of his mother.
(c) To the house of his grandfather.
(d) To the house of Wad.

6. What did Wad say when he heard Hosna's reaction to the marriage plans?
(a) That he will try to marry somebody else.
(b) That she should have two husbands.
(c) That she didn't have to marry him.
(d) That she was just a widow and will marry him.

7. Why did the narrator and his driver stop by a government car?
(a) Because it was disabled.
(b) Because the occupants requested them to stop.
(c) Because they were too hot.
(d) Because it was on fire.

8. What would Hosna not do to Wad for two weeks after the wedding?
(a) Write.
(b) Cook dinner.
(c) Talk.
(d) Smile.

9. What did the narrator do with the door of the triangular room when leaving?
(a) He painted it.
(b) He destroyed it.
(c) He replaced it.
(d) He locked it.

10. What did the narrator do to the triangular room?
(a) He burned it.
(b) He destroyed it.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He painted it.

11. What did Mustafa do in his sleep?
(a) He cursed.
(b) He mumbled.
(c) He sang.
(d) He sleep walked.

12. What was written in a notebook the narrator found in the triangular room?
(a) Mustafa's finances.
(b) Mustafa's dreams.
(c) Mustafa's love story.
(d) Mustafa's life story.

13. What did the narrator feel when he's done looking around in the triangular room?
(a) That he must take everything out of the room.
(b) That he must find Mrs. Robinson.
(c) That he must bring it all to an end.
(d) That he must find his grandfather.

14. What did the narrator regret not telling Hosna?
(a) How he felt about her.
(b) How she should leave the village.
(c) How to get into the triangular room.
(d) How he felt about Mustafa's boys.

15. Who met the narrator when he arrived back into the village by steamer?
(a) His father.
(b) Mustafa's sons.
(c) His friend Mahjoub.
(d) His grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did he leave the village the last time?

2. Where did the narrator fight his way to at the end of the book?

3. Why did Hosna think Mustafa knew he was going to be gone?

4. Where did Mrs. Robinson live?

5. Where did the narrator want to go when in the water?

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