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

2. What happens to the narrator's poet friend in Karachi by the time Rushdie returns to London?
(a) He becomes famous for a poem he wrote.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is married.
(d) He is imprisoned.

3. For how long does Omar sleep at night?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 1 hour and 30 minutes.
(c) 40 minutes.
(d) 50 minutes.

4. What does Omar's 12th birthday request do to his mothers?
(a) Stop fighting.
(b) Individuate them.
(c) Bring them to agreement.
(d) Speak for the first time in years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Omar's mothers do during the years in which they nurse him?

2. About what do Old Man Shakil's daughters regularly fantasize?

3. Of what is Bilquis habitually afraid?

4. Who is the Chief Minister in the region of Q when Raza Hyder first arrives?

5. What is the name of Rani Humayun's daughter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Raza Hyder and Maulana Dawood come to trust one another immediately?

4. What vice does Omar discern in Farah immediately before hypnotizing her, and how?

5. According to the opinion of the narrator, why does Eduardo deem that Omar must study to be a doctor?

6. What characterizes Bilquis' reaction to the Loo?

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

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

9. Why are the children of the British colonials sent back to England after the age of eight to continue their educations?

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

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