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

2. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?
(a) His career with the government.
(b) His career with the army.
(c) The narrator's career.
(d) The weather.

3. What does the narrator's father do when he has tea with his family again?
(a) He tells a few stories.
(b) He eats cake.
(c) He recites verses from the Koran.
(d) He recites verses from the Bible.

4. What were Western women called in the stories at grandfather's house?
(a) Pretty women.
(b) Infidel women.
(c) Smart women.
(d) Ugly women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jean Morris end her life?

2. What is the name of the strange man in the village?

3. What does the narrator talk about when he returns to the village he grew up in?

4. What did Mustafa do as the first Sudanese?

5. Where did the narrator stay during his absence in the village?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Mustafa want for his sons?

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

4. What does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans?

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

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

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

8. Whose story did the narrator interrupt when arriving at his grandfather's house one day and what was the story about?

9. What happened to Mustafa when he meets a man on horseback?

10. What did grandfather tell the narrator about Wad Rayyes?

(see the answer keys)

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