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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. Why did Mustafa decide to stay in the village after leaving the place he was from?
(a) Because he likes it.
(b) Because he gets offered a job.
(c) Because he falls in love with a woman.
(d) Because he meets the narrator.

2. What does the narrator say about Western women?
(a) That he knows all about them
(b) That he doesn't know about them.
(c) That they are attractive.
(d) That they are smart.

3. What does the narrator's sister think about Western women?
(a) That they are not as knowledgeable as their tribal women.
(b) That they are not as attractive as their tribal women.
(c) That they are not as healthy as their tribal women.
(d) That they are not as stupid as their tribal women.

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

5. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
(a) That he drowned.
(b) That he moved.
(c) That he lost his wife.
(d) That he lost his children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator know about the legendary flooding of the Nile?

2. Who invited the narrator to lunch as the group left grandfather's house?

3. How many months a year dioesthe narrator spend in the village he grew up in?

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

5. Who was the public prosecutor at Mustafa's trial?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the narrator feel about being back in his old village after being gone for seven years?

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

4. What did Mustafa want for his sons?

5. What else, after the conversation about Western women, was being talked about in grandfather's house the same day?

6. What does the narrator tell you about the steamer that brings him to his old village?

7. What did Mustafa do after he was released from prison?

8. Which woman did Mustafa meet at a party in Chelsea and what happened to her?

9. What was left for the narrator after Mustafa disappears?

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

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