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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 did the narrator find in the triangular room?
(a) Medals and pictures.
(b) Gold and jewels.
(c) Books and pictures.
(d) Several weapons.

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

3. Who did a conference delegate praise about to Mahjoub?
(a) Mahjoub.
(b) Himself.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Mustafa Sa'eed.

4. To which school did the narrator and his friend Mahjoub go together?
(a) Middle School.
(b) University.
(c) High School.
(d) Elementary School.

5. What did the narrator feel towards the women in the pictures?
(a) He felt that he has come to know them.
(b) He felt sorry for all of them.
(c) He felt why they loved Mustafa.
(d) He felt in love with them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Mahmoud?

3. How were Hosna and Wad buried?

4. Where did the narrator leave for after the ceremony in his village?

5. Who met the narrator when he arrived back into the village by steamer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the narrator left the village again after his conversations with Hosna and Mahjoub.

2. How does the book end?

3. Who did the narrator and his driver run into during the car trip and what happens?

4. What did the narrator do with Mustafa and Hosna?

5. What did the narrator think about the people in the pictures?

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

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

8. What do you know about the character Mahjoub?

9. Soon after leaving the village, the narrator has to go back. Why?

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

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