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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: "The Landlord".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did the narrator manage to get Tilo handed over to in Chapter 7?
(a) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(b) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(c) Biplab Dasgupta.
(d) Naga.

2. What shared experience does Anjum conclude she shares with the imam in Chapter 1?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Judgment.
(c) Envy.
(d) Hatred.

3. What object belonging to the mother is described as touching the baby's skin in Chapter 6?
(a) A bedpan.
(b) A sword.
(c) A drum.
(d) A gun.

4. How is gender applied to Urdu?
(a) All animal-based nouns have specific genders.
(b) There are no genders for any nouns.
(c) There is a gender for every noun.
(d) Some nouns have genders and others do not.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What come home after the bats leave, according to the narrator in the Prologue?

2. Nimmo Gorakpuri told Aftab in Chapter 2 that God created creatures like them because he wanted to create "a living creature that is incapable of" (27) what?

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

4. What is the system of delegating peoples into different segregated groups called in India?

5. What address is on the card that Suddam left at the woman's house in Chapter 5?

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