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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Arab ask Daru if he is?
(a) The warden
(b) The police
(c) The judge
(d) The jury

2. When Daru returns back to the classroom, what is the Arab doing?
(a) Lying down reading
(b) Sitting drinking tea
(c) Lying down staring at the ceiling
(d) Sitting down and eating a snack

3. Many of Daru's students are from what type of family?
(a) Poor
(b) Rich
(c) Monks
(d) Well-educated

4. What does Daru do after he leaves the Arab and walks into the next room?
(a) Lies on the couch
(b) Leaves the schoolhouse
(c) Makes more tea
(d) Builds a fire

5. What does Daru throw into the snow and watch sink?
(a) Pebbles
(b) Guns
(c) Ties
(d) Food

6. Where are the villages in relation to the schoolhouse?
(a) Beside the schoolhouse
(b) Above the schoolhouse
(c) Beneath the schoolhouse
(d) The schoolhouse is not near any villages

7. In what month does this story begin?
(a) September
(b) October
(c) December
(d) November

8. What lies in the southern direction when the plateau slopes?
(a) The schoolhouse
(b) Tinguit itself
(c) Low plain with a few trees
(d) Outcropping of rocks and a chaotic looking landscape

9. What did Daru tell Balducci he would deny?
(a) That the prisoner was restrained
(b) That Balducci said there would be a revolt
(c) That Balducci was ever at the schoolhouse
(d) That the prisoner was ever left with him

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

11. What lies in the eastern direction when the plateau slopes?
(a) The schoolhouse
(b) Outcropping of rocks and a chaotic looking landscape
(c) Tinguit itself
(d) Low plain with a few trees

12. Where does Daru put the gun when he is cooking?
(a) Next to him on the counter
(b) Under his bed
(c) In his pocket
(d) In his desk in the classroom

13. What does Daru do while the Arab washes up?
(a) Tidies up his bedroom
(b) Loads his guns with ammunition
(c) Reads
(d) Washes the dishes

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

15. What does Daru hold out for the Arab?
(a) Guns
(b) Package of food
(c) Package of clothes
(d) The paperwork Balducci gave him

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Arab do in the middle of the night?

2. Which of the following did not occur during the drought?

3. What does Daru see as he looks out over the two different directions?

4. Who would be waiting for the Arab in the south?

5. What does Balducci give Daru before he leaves?

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