Season of Migration to the North Quizzes

Season of Migration to the North Quiz 1

1 Where was the narrator's favorite place to play as a child?
His grandfather's house

The acacia tree by the Nile

The village square

His family's I[diwan] (reception room)
2 How long did the narrator study in England?
Two years

Seven years

One semester

Four years
3 What kind of fruit does Mustafa bring when he introduces himself to the narrator?
Berries

Peaches and pears

Watermelon and oranges

Apples and bananas
4 After finding out that the narrator has a doctorate in English poetry, Mustafa remarks that a more practical discipline would be more useful to the country. Which of these subjects does he NOT suggest as a better choice for the narrator?
Medicine

Agriculture

Diplomacy

Engineering
5 What famous anti-war poem does Mustafa Sa'eed recite that arouses the narrator's suspicion?
"MCMXIV" by Philip Larkin

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen

"How to Die" by Siegfried Sassoon

"Antwerp" by Ford Madox Hueffer
6 On what condition does Mustafa Sa'eed promise to tell the narrator his life story?
That the narrator will be his executor when he dies

Total secrecy

The narrator's fortune

That the narrator will not tell Hosna
7 Where was Mustafa Sa'eed born?
Khartoum

Cairo

London

Wad Hamid
8 When the narrator first returns from England, what does Mahjoub ask him?
Whether British women are circumcised

Whether there are farmers in Europe

If it's true that the British live in sin without getting married

What Europeans do when it snows in the winter
9 When the narrator was homesick while studying in England, whom did he dream of?
Hosna bint Mahmoud

Bint Majzoub

His grandfather

His father
10 Who is the president of the Agricultural Project Committee?
Mustafa Sa'eed

The narrator

The narrator's father

Mahmoud
11 Why does Mustafa Sa'eed want to go to school as a boy?
Because he is in love with the social worker who is enrolling children in school

Because he wants to study abroad

Because he likes the hat of the social worker who is enrolling children in school

He wants to make money to support his mother
12 After enrolling in school, how long does it take Mustafa to learn to write?
One year

Two weeks

One week

Three months
13 When describing his time in school, Mustafa repeatedly compares his mind to what object?
A shiny razor

A sharp knife

A mirror

The thirsty Sahara
14 How old is Mustafa when he goes to high school in Cairo?
Twelve

Fourteen

Fifteen

Eight
15 What is the name of the headmaster of Mustafa's elementary school?
Professor Maxwell Foster-Keen

Mr. Stockwell

Mr. Robinson

Mahmoud Effendi
16 Fill in the blank of this repeated refrain: "And the train carried me to Victoria Station and to the world of _____________."
women

Jean Morris

Ann Hammond

Oxford
17 How does Mustafa meet Jean Morris?
At a party

Through a classified ad

At a lecture

At a book signing
18 What pseudonym does Mustafa use with Isabella Seymour?
Wazir Miyaz

Amin Hassan

Ismail Nadir

Abdul Asad
19 In Chapter 1, Mustafa says to the narrator, "Your grandfather knows the secret." What is the secret?
That simplicity is the key to a happy life.

That a loving marriage is the key to a happy life.

That faith in God is the key to a happy life.

Where the key to Mustafa's private room is.
20 Which of Mustafa's lovers is married when they have their affair?
Jean Morris

Isabella Seymour

Ann Hammond

Sheila Greenwood
21 When they cannot find Mustafa Sa'eed's body after the flood, what do the villagers assume happened to him?
He is hiding in the village

He was eaten by crocodiles

He killed himself

He ran off with Bint Majzoub
22 What was Mustafa Sa'eed's nickname in elementary school?
The black Englishman

The police-in-training

The brilliant beggar

Four-Eyes
23 What is the Mamur's main complaint about the British rule of Sudan?
That the best government jobs were given to "nobodies"

That the British forced the local population into slave labor

That the education system was inefficient

That the civil servants were all corrupt
24 Before working for the government, which subject did the narrator teach in secondary schools?
Pre-Islamic poetry

Modern Arabic poetry

Writing

English poetry
25 What accusation does Richard make about Mustafa's academic work?
That he plagiarized it

That he wrote badly

That he cherry-picked his sources

That he fudged his statistics

Mustafa Sa'eed looms in the narrator's thoughts throughout the novel. In his forties, Mustafa moved to Wad Hamid and remained a mysterious figure there, marrying a village woman, Hosna bint Mahmoud, but never speaking to anyone about his past. The...

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A scientist want to confirm that a specimen is a living thing. Which would be the best evidence to support her conclusion that it is a living thing?

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What does it tell us about the character, the situation, the overall meaning of the story…?

In context, this quote illustrates the darkness and anger that permeate the speaker. His hatred has encompassed him, and he is unable to see beyond that hatred to the point where he can no longer see himself.

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