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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. What did the narrator relate his knowledge of the women in the pictures to?

2. Who asked for a cigarette when the narrator and his driver are out in the hot sun?

3. What did the narrator tell his friend Mahjoub about in Khartoum?

4. Who had the key to Mustafa's special room?

5. Who did the narrator think about as he reads about Jean Morris?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator relate Jean Morris to Hosna?

2. How does the book end?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did the narrator do with the triangular room, after he's finished there?

10. What do you know about the character Mahjoub?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The triangular room is mentioned throughout the book. What is this room? Why is it important? Whose room is it? What does the narrator have to do with this room? What happens to the room? What are the contents in this room? What does the narrator do in this room? What does he see and what is his reaction? What does he relate the pictures of the women to? How is Jean Morris' death related to Hosna's death? How does the narrator leave the room? Why is his being in the room important to the conclusion of the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

When the narrator returns to his Sudanese village, after an absence of seven years, everybody is happy about this event. How do you know this? How is the narrator's happiness to be back in the village expressed in the book? How do you know his family and friends are happy he is back? Describe their actions and feelings. Use evidence from the book. Give a few other examples of how happiness can be expressed in literature.

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