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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. After the coup, Raza Hyder appears on television and promises that there will be free elections within how many days?
(a) Never.
(b) 60.
(c) 90.
(d) 30.

2. While in the body of a 19-year-old, what age is Sufiya Zinobia mentally?
(a) 8 and a half.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 6 and a half.

3. What does Bilquis claim she is sewing when her husband inquires?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Shrouds.
(c) Curtains.
(d) Burqas.

4. How many fish do Omar and Raza catch on their fishing trip?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sufiya Zinobia discover in Omar's bed in the morning after Shahbanou sleeps with him?

2. What ghost perches itself on Raza Hyder's left shoulder after the hanging of Iskander Harappa?

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

4. Which of the following is NOT used as an analogy for sex by the Hyder women preparing Naveed for her wedding?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What becomes of Bilquis in her latter years?

2. Why does the Pakistani government intercept and destroy all incoming copies of a particular issue of Newsweek?

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

4. How do Omar and Raza escape the residence of the C-in-C and the house arrest?

5. For what reason does Naveed Hyder Ulhaq commit suicide?

6. How does Raza Hyder restore the morale of the deflated Pakistani army?

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

8. For what reasons does Arjumand Harappa develop an affection for Haroun Harappa?

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

10. What two phrases constitute the motto of Raza's regime?

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