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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 wonder about the women he saw pictures of?
2. What will Hosna do if she's forced to marry Wad?
3. What did Mustafa have in Khartoum?
4. What did the narrator regret not having done?
5. Where did Mrs. Robinson live?
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. Mahjoub and the narrator have a short conversation about Khartoum. What did they talk about? What did the narrator not talk about?
4. What were the narrator and Mahjoub talking about when they were in a drunken state before he leaves the village?
5. In pages 134-165, the narrator wonders what has happened to his world. Explain this feeling.
6. What do you know about the character Mahjoub?
7. How does the narrator relate Jean Morris to Hosna?
8. During the car trip, the narrator decided to write somebody. Who did he want to write and why?
9. Give your opinion about the book and its two main characters.
10. Soon after leaving the village, the narrator has to go back. Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Mustafa lives in London, he meets a woman at a party in Chelsea. Describe this episode in Mustafa's life. What do you know about this woman? What is her name? Who is she? What happens to her? How does this influence Mustafa's life? How is this woman related to other women in Mustafa's life? What is the result of this woman's fate for Mustafa?
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
Agriculture is very important in an African village like the one the narrator grows up in. Why is this important? How do you know it is important? Who refers to it in the book and what is discussed? What is the Agricultural Project Committee and Co-operative? Who were important members of it? How do you relate Mahjoub's influence to this Committee? What does Mustafa have to do with the Committee? What do the Committee and the subject of agriculture have to do with Mahjoub and Mustafa's relationship? How does Mahjoub feel towards Mustafa? Why? Relate these two characters to the Agricultural Project Committee and Co'operative.
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