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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. How many U.S. ambassadors does Iskander drive out of the country during his reign as Prime Minister?

2. Raza Hyder is named, by the President, the National Minister of what?

3. Which military man arrives to arrest Iskander Harappa when the coup is pulled off?

4. What ghost perches itself on Raza Hyder's left shoulder after the hanging of Iskander Harappa?

5. How many years older than Sufiya Zinobia is Omar Khayyam Shakil?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ethereal conflict besets the mind of Raza Hyder during his presidency?

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

3. Describe the final disgrace of Naveed Hyder's marriage to Captain Talvar Ulhaq.

4. How do Omar and Raza escape the residence of the C-in-C and the house arrest?

5. How does Iskander Harappa finally die?

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

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

8. How does Iskander Harappa rise to power?

9. How do Raza and Omar disagree when it comes to dealing with Sufiya Zinobia's condition?

10. For what reasons does Arjumand Harappa develop an affection for Haroun Harappa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Near the end of the book, Omar's mothers tell him a story about his great-grandfather Hafeezullah and great-grand-uncle Rumi. This story reflexively illuminates another major theme in the story of Shame, the dishonoring of family. In a carefully structured essay, analyze how this story illuminates past events in the book as being dishonorable to one's family. Why do the long-dead brothers treat one another poorly? How is this comparable to the lives of the principal characters in Shame? What does this indicate about Pakistani society as a whole? What is the significance of this sort of behavior to the whole of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Compose an analytical essay that fully develops the role of women in the Pakistani society as it is portrayed in Salman Rushdie's Shame. How are they viewed as a whole? What particular roles do individual women fulfill within society? What are some examples of this from the story? In what ways are they abused or neglected? In what ways do the women of the novel nonetheless shape the course of events? What is the ultimate result of women consistently being pushed to the periphery of events by their domineering male counterparts?

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