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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is strange about the interview room when Deven and Chiku arrive at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) It is empty.
(b) It appears Nur and his friends partied all night.
(c) Someone else is staying there.
(d) Imtiaz is there.

2. What does Nur tell Deven has happened to him because of their interview?
(a) He has become even more famous.
(b) He has been unable to get out of bed.
(c) He needs cataract surgery.
(d) His wife left him.

3. How is Siddiqui's home described when Deven first visits in Chapter 8?
(a) Grand but garish.
(b) Decrepit but spacious.
(c) Sizable but somber.
(d) Vast but vacant.

4. Who is Dhanu?
(a) A student who helps Deven edit the tapes.
(b) A grad student who assists Deven with teaching.
(c) The college registrar.
(d) The college janitor.

5. Where does Deven stay while he is interviewing Nur?
(a) His friend Siddiqui's cousin's house.
(b) His friend Raj's aunt's house.
(c) His friend Murad's mother's house.
(d) His wife Sarla's sister's house.

6. What does Nur want Deven's college to do for him as per the letter Deven received when he arrived home after the interview?
(a) Pay for his surgery.
(b) Hire him to teach.
(c) Pay him an annual salary.
(d) Name a building after him.

7. What does Murad tell Deven to do in order to pay off all of his bills?
(a) Give Murad the sole rights to Nur's tape.
(b) Ask his wife's family to help.
(c) Get a better job.
(d) Work for Murad full time.

8. What does the registrar, Mr. Rai, tell Deven and Siddiqui regarding the annual board meeting?
(a) They said they received a large donation this year.
(b) They only discuss budget cuts, not grants.
(c) They are the highlight of his year.
(d) They are the bane of his existence.

9. Why does Jain send his nephew Chiku with Deven?
(a) He is studying Urdu.
(b) To act as his guide.
(c) To act as his servant.
(d) To help with the tape recorder.

10. Why does Deven refuse to listen to the recordings of Nur after the first night?
(a) He dislikes tape recordings.
(b) He trusts that Chiku did a good job.
(c) He is too drunk to pay attention.
(d) He is frustrated and cannot bare to listen to them.

11. Why does Murad come to see Deven the morning after he first arrives to meet Nur for the interview?
(a) To supervise the interview.
(b) To tell Deven he is fired.
(c) To bring him cash.
(d) To make sure the tape recorder works.

12. What does Nur do when Deven begins writing down a poem Nur recited at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) He tears Deven's copybook.
(b) He writes it himself.
(c) He asks Deven why they are not recording.
(d) He recites even more new poetry.

13. Why does the college Deven works for have an Urdu department?
(a) Because the Principal wants to keep Urdu alive.
(b) Because Deven pushed for one.
(c) Because Urdu was a highly sought after degree.
(d) Because they received a large donation from a Muslim family.

14. What does Deven do as Imtiaz argues with Nur, telling him to recite to his friends while she lay dying?
(a) He gathers Nur's friends so he can recite for them.
(b) He convinces Imtiaz to go to the hospital.
(c) He leaves.
(d) He orders their servant to bring Imtiaz medicine.

15. Why are there so many people at Nur's when Deven visits after purchasing the tape recorder?
(a) Everyone wants to see a tape recorder.
(b) Nur's fans want to watch Deven interview him.
(c) Imtiaz is sick.
(d) Imtiaz is having a baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Dhanu and his friends tell Deven when they run into him at the end of Chapter 11?

2. What does Deven worry he might have to do once the board finds out his tapes are useless?

3. What word does Siddiqui use to describe the edited Nur tape when Deven plays it for him?

4. What does Deven ask Trivedi for, which Trivedi finds absurd, but agrees to?

5. Where does Nur's friend tel Deven Nur had met Imtiaz?

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