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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Deven decide he will do despite knowing the calamities they lay ahead at the end of the story?
(a) He will beg for forgiveness.
(b) He will make Murad pay for them.
(c) He will run away from them.
(d) He will run to meet them.

2. Why does Siddiqui order most of his meals from restaurants?
(a) He gets free food because he is nobility.
(b) He makes a lot of money.
(c) The kitchen roof fell in.
(d) He does not know how to cook.

3. What does Deven hear in the night for the second time when he is unable to sleep?
(a) His son whimpering.
(b) Traffic.
(c) Owls.
(d) A procession of female worshippers.

4. What does Deven give Nur's first wife when he arrives at their home for the interview at the start of Chapter 9?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Money.
(d) Tea.

5. Where does Nur's friend tel Deven Nur had met Imtiaz?
(a) In that very brothel.
(b) At a poetry reading.
(c) In college.
(d) They were childhood neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old woman say to Deven about Imtiaz after he leaves the day he visits when Imtiaz is ill?

2. What does Murad say to Jain regarding the tape recorder?

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

4. What does Deven attribute to Siddiqui's boldness in asking for funding for the tape recorder?

5. What does Nur tell Deven he wants the college to do for him since Deven's lack of response is "hastening [his] early death" (183)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Deven and Sarla's conversation about the fact that he no longer goes to Delhi at the start of Chapter 8.

2. What errors does Chiku make as the person in charge of recording Nur's interview?

3. Why does Deven call Murad in a panic the first time he meets with Nur in the room Nur's wife had arranged? How does Murad help Deven?

4. Who is Chiku and what does Jain say he will do for Deven?

5. What good news does Deven receive from Mr. Rai in the registrar's office at the end of Chapter 6?

6. What does the old woman tell Deven she can do for him to help him interview Nur?

7. Who is Jayadev and what does he say to Deven at the annual board meeting, which Sarla overhears?

8. What happens when Deven and Murad listen to the tapes of his interview with Nur? What does Murad suggest Deven do?

9. Why is Nur's interview room bare when Deven and Chiku enter at the start of Chapter 10?

10. Who is Siddiqui? How does he agree to help Deven with his interview with Nur?

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