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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Urdu phrase means "comfortable with another beyond table manners"?
(a) Bay-takalufi.
(b) Shukriyah.
(c) Be sharam be iman.
(d) Tukron main aik jaisa.

2. Why does Eamonn stop drinking?
(a) Because he stops liking the taste.
(b) Because he wants to live in moderation.
(c) Because Aneeka says they cannot kiss if he does.
(d) Because he can't afford it.

3. What does Eamonn do when Aneeka brings up in Chapter Four how they only survived because they were a secret?
(a) Tells her he's in love with her.
(b) Tells her she should listen to his father's words.
(c) Proposes proposing to her.
(d) Tells her they should break up.

4. How does Aneeka describe her mother?
(a) Always happy.
(b) A hard-worker.
(c) Stressed after the death of her grandfather.
(d) Easygoing and beautiful.

5. What happened to Aneeka on the Tube in Chapter Four?
(a) She slips and falls.
(b) A man spits on her.
(c) She has a bucket of water dumped on her.
(d) She steps into a puddle.

6. What does Eamonn buy on Main Street in Chapter One?
(a) Two buckets of oysters.
(b) Brand new boots.
(c) Expensive walking shoes.
(d) A whole new wardrobe.

7. What does Eamonn say a father is to a son?
(a) Guides into manhood.
(b) The sun and moon to the axis of the earth.
(c) Really not that important.
(d) Voyagers into the great beyond.

8. What does Karamat say he does in times of stress?
(a) Go for a run.
(b) Call Terry.
(c) Recite Ayat al-Kursi.
(d) Think of his mother.

9. What does Eamonn do in Chapter Four when he learns about Parviaz's leaving?
(a) Embrace Aneeka and tell her it will be ok.
(b) Start smashing plants and tell Aneeka to get out.
(c) Tell her he is going to tell his father about her.
(d) Tell Aneeka he never loved her.

10. Who is in the photo Eamonn picks up at Isma's apartment in Chapter Two?
(a) Aneeka and her mother.
(b) Isma and Aneeka.
(c) Isma and her ex-boyfriend.
(d) Aneeka and Parviaz.

11. Who is Gita?
(a) Aneeka's friend from the local mosque.
(b) Aneeka's cousin who lets Aneeka stay at her apartment.
(c) Aneeka's older university friend who lets Aneeka stay at her apartment.
(d) Isma's friend who lets Aneeka stay at her place.

12. Who does Eamonn remind Isma of when she first sees him in Chapter One?
(a) Her father.
(b) Pakistani movie star Imran Abbas.
(c) Karamat Lone.
(d) Her old crush from high school.

13. What is Terry Lone's profession?
(a) Interior design.
(b) Public relations.
(c) Politics.
(d) Urdu translation.

14. What does Eamonn start showing to Aneeka in Chapter Four?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Fragments of poetry that remind him of her.
(c) Pictures of the places he goes.
(d) Sound clippings of his time without her.

15. Where did Eamonn grow up?
(a) Ealing Road.
(b) King's Cross.
(c) West London.
(d) High Road.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eamonn call in Chapter Four with his father's phone?

2. Who threatened to bomb the North Circular Canal in 1939?

3. What does Karamat Lone say to the Pasha's family friend when asked about Adil Pasha?

4. What does GMW stand for?

5. What role does Karamat Lone get promoted to?

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