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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the sisters continue to pay for the house's regular needs?
(a) By using their inheritance.
(b) By selling their children into slavery.
(c) By selling the household treasures piece-by-piece.
(d) By prostituting themselves.

2. What word best describes Omar's feeling towards life?
(a) Polarized.
(b) Abnormal.
(c) Inverted.
(d) Twisted.

3. For how long has Old Man Shakil been a widow?
(a) 29 years.
(b) 23 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 18 years.

4. What is the name the Shakil sisters give to their house?
(a) Damascus.
(b) Nishapur.
(c) Tayy.
(d) Bassorah.

5. Which of the following does Old Man Shakil hate?
(a) The native bazaar.
(b) The foreign blacksmith.
(c) His eldest son.
(d) The trade route.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country is mentioned as invading Afghanistan at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. What do Omar's mothers insist that he must never feel?

3. Which of the following languages does Omar not master on his own?

4. What happens to the narrator's poet friend in Karachi by the time Rushdie returns to London?

5. About what do Old Man Shakil's daughters regularly fantasize?

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