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

2. How does the narrator state that Pakistan's women are restrained?
(a) By men.
(b) By society.
(c) By veils.
(d) By chains.

3. Where is Iskander buried?
(a) The Impossible Mountains.
(b) Karachi.
(c) Mohenjo.
(d) Q.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Against what unclean animal does Dawood persuade Raza Hyder to launch a campaign?

2. Who kills Iskander Harappa?

3. After the coup, Raza Hyder appears on television and promises that there will be free elections within how many days?

4. In what city does Haroun Harappa hijack an aircraft?

5. What is Raza Hyder's military rank upon the opening of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What change takes place in Iskander Harappa at the age of 40, and why?

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

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

5. Why, in the opinion of Omar Khayyam Shakil, does Sufiya Zinobia become intensely ill?

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

7. What becomes of Bilquis in her latter years?

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

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

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

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