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

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

3. Whose execution does the narrator mention while visiting his poet friend who lives in Karachi?
(a) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
(b) Frederick Hapsburg.
(c) Jeremiah Burden.
(d) Omar Khayyam.

4. What is the real name of Marshal Aurangzeb's wife?
(a) Pinkie.
(b) Atiyah.
(c) Duniyazad.
(d) Sufiya.

5. How many women sleep in the room with Bariamma?
(a) 36.
(b) 39.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Bilquis' second daughter?

2. What profession does Eduardo Rodrigues determine is fitting for Omar?

3. Why is Farah expelled from school?

4. What is the first sight of Omar Khayyam Shakil?

5. Where does the war between the Pakistanis and Indians resume during the hot season?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe why the narrator insists that his novel is not about a real Pakistan, and what would happen to (the story, not the actual book) it if it were.

2. How does Bilquis come to be accepted as a member of the Hyder family?

3. What sort of gossip floats around Farah Zoroaster and Eduardo Rodrigues?

4. Why does Raza Hyder stake himself to the ground in Iskander Harappa's yard?

5. What theory does the author propose regarding the mysterious pregnancy of the sisters?

6. Briefly, what is the generally accepted reason that the husbands in the Hyder family "secretly" visit their wives in common in the night?

7. What are the lasting effects of Omar's birthday request upon his mothers?

8. How does Omar Khayyam describe himself to Iskander Harappa, as described at the end of Chapter 1?

9. How is Omar initially greeted upon his exiting Nishapur?

10. What effect does voyeurism-by-proxy have on Omar's mothers, and what is possibly the consequence of this effect?

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