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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. Whose lifestyle does Haroun Harappa emulate while growing up?

2. What does Omar Khayyam take to eating while sitting alone in the attic of Raza Hyder's house?

3. Which of the following is NOT used as an analogy for sex by the Hyder women preparing Naveed for her wedding?

4. Into what new organization of his own creation does Iskander Harappa make Talvar Ulhaq the head?

5. Which ignominious title does Haroun Harappa receive from the Hyder women preparing Naveed for her wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Iskander Harappa bring his fate down upon his head after being arrested and imprisoned in Bagheeragali?

2. Why does the Pakistani man in London, referred to by the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 7, murder his own daughter?

3. Why does the Pakistani government intercept and destroy all incoming copies of a particular issue of Newsweek?

4. How does Raza Hyder restore the morale of the deflated Pakistani army?

5. What is the consequence of Maulana Dawood's quest against the selling and eating of shellfish in Karachi?

6. Why does Captain Talvar Ulhaq take great risk to steal Naveed Hyder from her arranged marriage to Haroun Harappa?

7. What is revealed by Rani Harappa's uncovering of the deceased Iskander's face?

8. What change takes place in Iskander Harappa at the age of 40, and why?

9. How do the 18 shawls embroidered by Rani over the six years of home imprisonment depict the life of Iskander Harappa?

10. What is the nature of the relationship between Omar Khayyam Shakil and Shahbanou?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As a prominent female figure, Bilquis Hyder, always first hand to experience instability, reveals much about the position of women in Pakistani society as it is portrayed in Shame. How do the various positions into which Bilquis is put and the various attitudes she adopts throughout her life demonstrate the role of Pakistani women? What is significant about her physical appearance? What is significant about the manner in which she clothes herself throughout the story? What is significant about the inverted manner in which she is gradually clothed throughout her married life? What is her overall significance to the story?

Essay Topic 2

Various actions and statements made by the characters throughout the story support the notion that in Pakistan, as portrayed in Shame, males are in every way superior to females. Analyze, in a well-developed essay, this societal perspective. Who holds this view? Who objects to it? In what ways does this view, as espoused implicitly or explicitly by various characters, impact the story? What is the significance of this view to the main themes and the morals promoted within them as presented throughout the story of Shame?

Essay Topic 3

In a thoughtful essay, examine the concept of takallouf. What is the approximate meaning of the word? What are the nuances that make it difficult to translate? What part does the untranslatable word play in the story? How does it move and shape events? Which characters are constrained by it, and how? What is takallouf's significance to the story?

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