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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has a powerful effect on Omar when seen through his telescope?
(a) Yakoob Balloch.
(b) Eduardo Rodrigues.
(c) Farah Zoroaster.
(d) Maulana Dawood.

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

3. What does Omar become after starting to attend the school?
(a) A freakish recluse.
(b) A soccer star.
(c) A peeping tom.
(d) A ladies' man.

4. What oddity does Eduardo Rodrigues carry with him when he first enters the town of Q?
(a) An empty birdcage.
(b) A ship in a bottle.
(c) An empty and cracked teapot.
(d) A mechanical oil lamp.

5. What does Chand Mohammad sell to Omar?
(a) A copy of the Qur'an.
(b) A leather satchel.
(c) A block of ice.
(d) A dirty magazine.

6. What is the name of Bilquis' second daughter?
(a) Arjumand.
(b) Sufiya.
(c) Atiyah.
(d) Naveed.

7. What is the name of Bilquis' father's theater?
(a) The Excelsior Theater.
(b) The Vinyl Theater.
(c) The Empire Theater.
(d) The Loo.

8. With whom does BIlquis go to the movies in Q while Raza is away?
(a) Omar Khayyam Shakil.
(b) Sindbad Mengal.
(c) Duniyazad Begum.
(d) Rani Harappa.

9. For how many days, roughly, does Raza Hyder go without sleep in order to watch over the refugees?
(a) 18.
(b) 20.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

10. How does Bilquis' father die, to the best of Bilquis' knowledge?
(a) Old age.
(b) Illness.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Murder.

11. Near what bodily feature does Raza Hyder develop distinguishing black marks?
(a) His elbows.
(b) His hands.
(c) His eyes.
(d) His ears.

12. Of what is Bilquis habitually afraid?
(a) The Loo.
(b) The Lee.
(c) Excelsior.
(d) The Vinyl Theater.

13. What is the name of Bilquis' first daughter?
(a) Runi Humayun Hyder.
(b) Zinobia Duniyazad.
(c) Sufiya Zinobia.
(d) Duniyazad Begum.

14. How many male servants remain in the Shakil sisters' house?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Thirteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most prominent decoration in Eduardo Rodrigues' room?

2. Why is Farah expelled from school?

3. What does the narrator say is Sufiya Zinobia's relation to Omar?

4. For how long is Omar imprisoned in the house of the Shakil sisters?

5. How old is Rani Humayun's betrothed at the time of their marriage?

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