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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did Mustafa marry Jean?
2. How many days following their introduction do the narrator and Mustafa have dinner?
3. What is Mustafa's last name?
4. What happened to Mustafa during the big flooding?
5. What was presumed about Mustafa during the big flooding?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the narrator do after Mustafa told him his story?
2. What do you know about the legendary flooding of the Nile described in the book?
3. Which woman did Mustafa meet at a party in Chelsea and what happened to her?
4. What did the narrator's companion on the train in Khartoum tell him about Mustafa and how did he react to this information?
5. What happened on the train one day, when the narrator works at the Department of Education in Khartoum?
6. What does Mustafa have to do with the topic of mixed marriages?
7. Does Mustafa Sa'eed become an obsession for the narrator?
8. What did Mustafa do after he was released from prison?
9. What else, after the conversation about Western women, was being talked about in grandfather's house the same day?
10. Who was the strange man in the village when the narrator gets back and how does he describe this man?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mustafa's widow Hosna and Wad Reyyes become a part of each other's lives. Describe their history together and how this influences other people. How do they become involved? Why? What does Wad want? What does Hosna want? What happens to the two people? What is their dramatic end a result from? How do the villagers react to the events? How does the narrator feel about the events? How does Mahjoub feel about the event? How does this event change the relationship between the narrator and his friend Mahjoub? Why does the narrator feel he indirectly killed Hosna?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the book, a lot of people talk about Mustafa to the narrator. Summarize the information the narrator collects about Mustafa. Who does the narrator meet that talks to him about Mustafa? In which circumstances does this happen? What does the narrator learn about Mustafa? What is being said? How does he react to this information? What is said about Mustafa that is contradictory with the narrator's information? Who, of all these people with information, actually met Mustafa in person? Why do you think all these people talk about Mustafa and praise him? How do you think the narrator feels about this?
Essay Topic 3
When Mustafa was a child, a man on horseback appeared. How does this event change Mustafa's life? How did he react to this man? What were the consequences? How did this man influence Mustafa? How was Mustafa different from the other children? Describe the meeting between the man on the horse and Mustafa and relate it to Mustafa's further childhood and adulthood.
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