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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the play that the narrator and three friends from Pakistan see in London?
(a) Les Miserables.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) All's Well that Ends Well.
(d) Danton's Death.

2. How many years have passed within the story from the end of Chapter 6 to the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) 22.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

3. What is the name of the general who leads the military coup?
(a) Shaggy Dog.
(b) Sly Snake.
(c) Mangy Lion.
(d) The Dragon.

4. How is the Supreme Court split on Iskander Harappa's death sentence?
(a) 7-0.
(b) 5-2.
(c) 6-1.
(d) 4-3.

5. Against what unclean animal does Dawood persuade Raza Hyder to launch a campaign?
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Shellfish.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Turkeys.

6. For how long is Sufiya Zinobia chained up in the attic?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 20 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 3 years.

7. How does the young man who helped inspire the character of Sufiya Zinobia expire?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Spontaneous combustion.
(c) Beat to death by his father.
(d) Overdose of painkillers.

8. In what city does Haroun Harappa hijack an aircraft?
(a) Islamabad.
(b) Delhi.
(c) Q.
(d) Karachi.

9. What is the nickname given to Babar by the guerrillas?
(a) Champ.
(b) Emperor.
(c) Baby.
(d) Chang.

10. By what name does Bilquis call Sufiya Zinobia?
(a) Shameless.
(b) Shame.
(c) Chili pepper.
(d) Disappointment.

11. Which military man arrives to arrest Iskander Harappa when the coup is pulled off?
(a) Shaggy dog.
(b) Tughlak.
(c) Shuja.
(d) Hyder.

12. At what age does Arjumand Harappa learn self-defense?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 16.

13. Whose cadaver is prominently depicted on the last of Rani's shawls?
(a) Iskander.
(b) Raza Hyder.
(c) Little Mir.
(d) Arjumand.

14. What is Omar's medical specialty?
(a) Circulatory systems.
(b) General medicine.
(c) Immunology.
(d) Respiration.

15. How many erratum slips does Bilquis write announcing the change of groom for Naveed's wedding?
(a) 454.
(b) 555.
(c) 333.
(d) 676.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does Omar dream the night that Sufiya Zinobia is taken to the hospital?

2. Into what new organization of his own creation does Iskander Harappa make Talvar Ulhaq the head?

3. What part of Talvar Ulhaq's body does Sufiya Zinobia bite at the wedding ceremony?

4. At what hospital is Omar named senior consultant in the new capital?

5. To where does the President dispatch a huge army when Iskander is elected Prime Minister?

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