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

2. What word best describes Omar's feeling towards life?
(a) Abnormal.
(b) Twisted.
(c) Inverted.
(d) Polarized.

3. How old is Rani Humayun's betrothed at the time of their marriage?
(a) 45.
(b) 30.
(c) 18.
(d) 25.

4. About what do Old Man Shakil's daughters regularly fantasize?
(a) China.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Male genitalia.

5. What sort of guests compose the majority of the girls' coming-out party?
(a) Wealthy locals.
(b) Adolescents.
(c) Females.
(d) Foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose assassination is made known at Rani Humayun's marriage?

2. At what age does Omar win a scholarship to the best medical school in Karachi?

3. After whom does the narrator name the hero of his story?

4. Near what bodily feature does Raza Hyder develop distinguishing black marks?

5. Who is the betrothed of Rani Hamayun?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the real names of the three sisters, and by what names are they instead called?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Raza Hyder describe his courtship of Bilquis?

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

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

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

10. 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.

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