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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 Omar's medical specialty?
(a) General medicine.
(b) Circulatory systems.
(c) Immunology.
(d) Respiration.

2. What alone unites Rani and Arjumand during their shared house arrest?
(a) Never crying.
(b) Always crying.
(c) Hating Raza Hyder.
(d) Missing Iskander.

3. What myth does the narrator suggest to replace the Islamic fundamentalist myth rammed down the people's throats by Raza Hyder?
(a) Liberty, fraternity, and justice.
(b) Liberty, equality, and fraternity.
(c) Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
(d) Islamic jurisprudence.

4. For what Western publication does Haroun Harappa write an article detailing his father's illicit behavior in Pakistan?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) Time Magazine.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) The Guardian.

5. How many children does Naveed bear Talvar Ulhaq?
(a) 7.
(b) 20.
(c) 17.
(d) 27.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the ghost of Iskander Harappa quote to Raza Hyder?

2. What motto appears on Iskander's campaign posters?

3. On what does Iskander Harappa feed, as his daughter Arjumand realizes at age 23?

4. In what color does Rani embroider the shawl depicting the rampant corruption allowed by Iskander during his reign?

5. Which of the following is NOT involved in the coup against Raza Hyder that is prematurely unveiled?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ethereal conflict besets the mind of Raza Hyder during his presidency?

2. What is the consequence of Maulana Dawood's quest against the selling and eating of shellfish in Karachi?

3. How do the 18 shawls embroidered by Rani over the six years of home imprisonment depict the life of Iskander Harappa?

4. Why does the narrator include the anecdote about seeing a London performance of Danton's Death?

5. How does Iskander Harappa bring his fate down upon his head after being arrested and imprisoned in Bagheeragali?

6. What is revealed by Rani Harappa's uncovering of the deceased Iskander's face?

7. How does Arjumand Harappa choose to remember her father?

8. Why does the Pakistani man in London, referred to by the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 7, murder his own daughter?

9. What is the nature of the relationship between Omar Khayyam Shakil and Shahbanou?

10. Describe the final disgrace of Naveed Hyder's marriage to Captain Talvar Ulhaq.

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