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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 feel, realizing his world turned upside down?
(a) Love.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Violence.
(d) Hatred.

2. What did the narrator relate his knowledge of the women in the pictures to?
(a) To events that occured at the trial.
(b) To events he read about in the newspaper.
(c) To events that he has heard about from his family.
(d) To events known by nobody but him.

3. Who did the narrator think about as he reads about Jean Morris?
(a) Hosna.
(b) Majhoub.
(c) Mustafa.
(d) His mother.

4. Why did the narrator want to contact Mrs. Robinson?
(a) She was Mustafa's best friend.
(b) She lived with Mustafa.
(c) She attended Mustafa's trial.
(d) She was Mustafa's wife.

5. How did the narrator describe Mustafa while in the room?
(a) As his best friend.
(b) As a wonderul man.
(c) As his supporter.
(d) As his adversary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the narrator and his driver stop by a government car?

2. What was the narrator being told by the person who picks him up?

3. Which war did Mustafa write comments about in the letter to the narrator?

4. Who was the narrator thinking about during his drive away from the village?

5. How many cigarettes did the narrator give the person who asked for one?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Wad Reyyes' reaction when the narrator told him Hosna's reaction to the idea of marriage?

2. In pages 134-165, the narrator wonders what has happened to his world. Explain this feeling.

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

4. What were the narrator and Mahjoub talking about when they were in a drunken state before he leaves the village?

5. During the car trip, the narrator decided to write somebody. Who did he want to write and why?

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

7. What had happened to Hosna and Wad while the narrator was away from the village?

8. What did the narrator find in the triangular room and what did he do while in there?

9. How does the narrator learn what happened to Hosna and Wad?

10. Mahjoub and the narrator have a short conversation about Khartoum. What did they talk about? What did the narrator not talk about?

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