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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 did the narrator and his driver try to escape the heat of the sun?
(a) By going back in the car.
(b) By asking around for a good place to hide.
(c) By going to a bar.
(d) By looking for a place in the shade.

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

3. What did Hosna think about getting married again?
(a) She only wanted to get married with a rich guy.
(b) She didn't want another man after Mustafa.
(c) She wanted to get married, but not with Wad.
(d) She would like to get married again.

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

5. What was the narrator being told by the person who picks him up?
(a) That Hosna was all right.
(b) That his grandfather was all right.
(c) That the boys were all right.
(d) That his father was all right.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why could Mahjoub not question the conference delegate?

2. Why did the narrator want to contact Mrs. Robinson?

3. When did the narrator go see his sister?

4. What did the narrator feel, realizing his world turned upside down?

5. What did they have planned for the boys since the narrator was in town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who met the narrator when he arrives by steamer, not too long after he had left, and what do they talk about?

2. Give your opinion about the book and its two main characters.

3. Where did the narrator go after leaving Mustafa's house and what happened there?

4. How did the busy day of driving end for the narrator and his driver?

5. Who are Mustafa's children and what is the narrator's relationship with them?

6. What happened when the narrator and his friend Mahjoub talk about the murders?

7. How does the book end?

8. What were all the things that are tangled up, according to the narrator?

9. What did the narrator do when he approaches the triangular room?

10. What does Hosna tell the narrator about Mustafa when he visited her one day?

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