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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 is the name of Bilquis' father's theater?
(a) The Excelsior Theater.
(b) The Loo.
(c) The Empire Theater.
(d) The Vinyl Theater.

2. For whom does Omar look among the Englishmen?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) Dr. Wilkes.
(d) His uncle.

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

4. Who is the betrothed of Rani Hamayun?
(a) Omar Khayyam Shakil.
(b) Raza Hyder.
(c) Iskander Harappa.
(d) Mohammad Iballa.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does BIlquis go to the movies in Q while Raza is away?

2. Which of the following languages does Omar not master on his own?

3. In what garment does Raza Hyder first wrap Bilquis?

4. What happens to the narrator's poet friend in Karachi by the time Rushdie returns to London?

5. Of what is Bilquis habitually afraid?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sindbad Mengal meet his fate?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. What characterizes Farah Zoroaster's life in Q after returning from her forced marriage to Eduardo Rodrigues?

10. What are the important nuances of the word "sharam" that are not carried over into the English "shame"?

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