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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is left for the narrator when Mustafa disappeared?
(a) A key and a testament.
(b) A message and a testament.
(c) A key and a message.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. What religion did they talk about at the grandfather's house?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Budhism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Catholicism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mustafa from?

2. Where did Mustafa first see Isabella Seymour?

3. Who is telling a story when the narrator arrives at his grandfather's house?

4. How did Jean Morris end her life?

5. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mustafa's school career look like?

2. Who was the strange man in the village when the narrator gets back and how does he describe this man?

3. Does Mustafa Sa'eed become an obsession for the narrator?

4. What does Mustafa have to do with the topic of mixed marriages?

5. What do you know about the narrator's grandfather as a person?

6. What did you learn about Mustafa's trial in the pages 19-44?

7. What did the narrator's companion on the train in Khartoum tell him about Mustafa and how did he react to this information?

8. What is being said about Western women during a conversation at the grandfather's house?

9. How does the house of the narrator's grandfather look like?

10. What did the narrator learn on the way back to the village by donkey?

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