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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which direction is it to Tinguit?
(a) South
(b) North
(c) West
(d) East

2. What does Daru feel when the Arab coughs behind him?
(a) Peace
(b) Weariness
(c) Relief
(d) Fury

3. Daru offers the Arab how much money?
(a) 100 francs
(b) 200 francs
(c) 1,000 francs
(d) 2,000 francs

4. How long did Balducci tell Daru it took him and the Arab to make the trek to the schoolhouse in the snow?
(a) 1/2 an hour
(b) 2 hours
(c) 1 1/2 hours
(d) 1 hour

5. What awes Daru as he rests with the Arab?
(a) Vast amount of hills to climb yet
(b) Vast amounts of snow
(c) Vast amounts of people below
(d) Vast expanse of the deserted land

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daru do while the Arab washes up?

2. What does Balducci want Daru to sign?

3. What is the name of the village nearest the schoolhouse?

4. What does Daru make for his visitors?

5. What did Daru tell Balducci he would deny?

Short Essay Questions

1. What concerns Daru about traveling with the Arab?

2. What two things is Daru torn between which causes him frustration?

3. Why is Daru no longer a part of a community of men?

4. What does the imagery of increasing the wind cause?

5. Describe what the author falsely foreshadows during the sleepless night the two men spend together.

6. What is a protagonist and who is the protagonist of this story?

7. How does the Arab walk behind Balducci?

8. Write one-sentence summary of the story?

9. How is isolation portrayed by the character Daru?

10. Where is the final decision left as to the Arab's fate left?

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