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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: "The Tenant" (pages 217-268) .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was supposedly made a scapegoat for Jalib Qadri's death?
(a) Biplab Dasgupta.
(b) Amrik Singh.
(c) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(d) Comrade Maase Revathy.

2. Who was the love of Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's life for whom he traveled to Delhi?
(a) Abhay Chand.
(b) Zainab.
(c) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(d) Amrik Singh.

3. Why did the soldiers save Anjum's life, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Because she was pregnant.
(b) Because she held them at gunpoint until they fled.
(c) Because they believed it was bad luck to kill a hijra.
(d) Because she was in disguise.

4. Who are the two people that Tilo was thinking of in the opening of Chapter 8?
(a) Arifa and Zakir Mian.
(b) Musa and Amrik Singh.
(c) Miss Jebeen and Miss Jebeen the Second.
(d) Jahanara Begum and Zainab.

5. What is the system of delegating peoples into different segregated groups called in India?
(a) The perdu system.
(b) The caste system.
(c) The gargu system.
(d) The ermad system.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 7 as one of Amrik Singh's most brutal interrogators and was likely responsible for shaving Tilo's head?

2. Whom does the narrator identify as the soldier that is being tortured in the photos in Tilo's apartment?

3. Into what type of family was Tilo's mother born?

4. Who was Tilo's mother?

5. What did Anjum name the little three-year-old girl she found on the steps of Jama Masjid?

(see the answer key)

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