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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Analysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weather event has just occurred at the beginning of the story?
(a) A three-year flood
(b) A three-day blizzard
(c) A three-day rainstorm
(d) A three-year drought

2. Who is considered the protagonist of this story?
(a) Arab
(b) Daru
(c) Balducci
(d) El Ameur

3. What is the Daru in charge of as related to the Arab?
(a) His life
(b) His placement
(c) His fate
(d) His choices

4. To what city is the Arab to be taken?
(a) Schoolhouse
(b) Tadjad
(c) Tinguit
(d) El Ameur

5. Which of the following words is a compound word?
(a) Thoughtful
(b) Greater
(c) Schoolhouse
(d) Threatening

Short Answer Questions

1. What is there talk of in the area, which requires Balducci to return right away?

2. How long did the men walk before they stopped to rest?

3. Which of the following words describes past tense?

4. When Daru wakes up the Arab who looks frightened. This is an example of what?

5. Who is the author of this story?

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