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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven, Politics in Exile.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Enemy jailers tried to convince Bhutto to _______, saying that people were deserting her cause.
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Keep eating.
(c) Throw away the diary.
(d) Admit to sedition.

2. As a consequence for talking openly about the general, five men with _______ arrived to take the prime minister into custody again.
(a) Swords.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Pistols.
(d) Knives.

3. The Pakistani government has ________ senators elected every six years by four provinces.
(a) One hundred.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Forty.

4. The separation of these two countries was known as the partition and Benazir's father, _______ was a representative of Pakistan for the United Nations at that time.
(a) Nusrat.
(b) Shah.
(c) Mir.
(d) Ali.

5. Benazir asked for legal help from _______ to defend her father against the death penalty.
(a) Victoria Schofield.
(b) Ayub Khan.
(c) Victoria Galbraith.
(d) Anne Fadiman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Benazir had to stop her political activism at one point due to a serious _______.

2. According to the book there was a rumor that Prime Minister Bhutto was responsible for ________ that damaged crops.

3. Benazir wrote to the ________ while she was under house arrest in Karachi to encourage them to continue resisting the military.

4. According to the book, Benazir's mother refused to wear the Islamic _______, a veil that covers up women's faces.

5. In her junior year at Harvard, Benazir was able to see a meeting between her father and prime minister _______ of India.

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