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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. What significant event happens to the girls at their coming-out party?
(a) They find their father's journal.
(b) One of them becomes pregnant.
(c) They are kidnapped.
(d) One of them is killed.

2. What do Omar's mothers insist that he must never feel?
(a) Anger.
(b) Pride.
(c) Shame.
(d) Curiousity.

3. What happens to Mistri Yakoob Balloch after his deal is made with the sisters?
(a) He kidnaps two of the sisters.
(b) He impregnates one of the sisters.
(c) He is arrested and taken to prison.
(d) He dies suspiciously.

4. Who accompanies Omar's rescuer from the religious zealots?
(a) Farah Zoroaster.
(b) Maulana Dawood.
(c) Yakoob Balloch.
(d) Eduardo Rodrigues.

5. What sort of guests compose the majority of the girls' coming-out party?
(a) Adolescents.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) Females.
(d) Wealthy locals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a powerful effect on Omar when seen through his telescope?

2. How many of the sisters feign pregnancy after their coming-out party?

3. Who comes to Omar's aid when he is overwhelmed by the religious zealots?

4. What is the name the Shakil sisters give to their house?

5. Whose execution does the narrator mention while visiting his poet friend who lives in Karachi?

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