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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 the sisters purchase from the handyman Mistri Yakoob Balloch?
(a) A dumbwaiter.
(b) Three years of service.
(c) A yacht.
(d) A chest of tools.

2. Who is the Chief Minister in the region of Q when Raza Hyder first arrives?
(a) Omar Khayyam Shakil.
(b) Maulana Dawood.
(c) Iskander Harappa.
(d) Aladdin Gichki.

3. What is the name of the girl whom Omar accompanies in a jeep?
(a) Farah Rodrigues.
(b) Yana Khayar.
(c) Ana Makiina.
(d) Elishna Ramel.

4. What does the narrator say is Sufiya Zinobia's relation to Omar?
(a) She is his cousin.
(b) She becomes his best friend.
(c) She is his long-lost sister.
(d) She is his wife.

5. What about Omar makes Farah incapable of returning his love?
(a) His terrible acne.
(b) The rumors about his mothers.
(c) His weight.
(d) Something indefinable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Bilquis' father's theater?

2. What is the name of Bilquis' first daughter?

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

4. What does Chand Mohammad sell to Omar?

5. What is Omar called by the two religious zealots?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What characterizes Omar Khayyam Shakil's early educational experiences?

3. Of what two cultural parts is the town of Q's dumbbell shape composed?

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

5. Why is Raza Hyder sent to the Needle Valley?

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

7. Why does the narrator appropriate the story of his friend, the poet?

8. How is Bilquis' father's business ruined?

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

10. What characterizes Bilquis' reaction to the Loo?

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