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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. How many different women was Mustafa living with simultaneously when he was with Jean?

2. How many days following their introduction do the narrator and Mustafa have dinner?

3. How often did the steamer come to the narrator's childhood village?

4. What was presumed about Mustafa by the group of people the narrator talks to?

5. Who is telling a story when the narrator arrives at his grandfather's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was the strange man in the village when the narrator gets back and how does he describe this man?

5. What does the narrator tell you about the steamer that brings him to his old village?

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

7. What do you know about the narrator's grandfather as a person?

8. How can you tell that the village life seems unchanged to the narrator when he gets back after all those years?

9. How do the narrator and Mustafa first meet and what do they learn about each other?

10. What did the narrator do after Mustafa told him his story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An important part in "Season of Migration to the North" is the difference between the Western and the African culture. While reading, you learn a lot about the African culture. Give a few examples from the book about African life. Think about the narrator's arrival and stay in the village to describe tribal life. How does the African culture differ from the American culture? Compare and contrast African and American life.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

On pages 105-115, the narrator and his driver make a car trip back to Khartoum. Describe this trip. Through the trip, what do you learn about the Sudan? What decisions does the narrator make on this trip? Are the events important for the plot of the book? Why or why not? Why do you think the author wrote this chapter in the book?

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