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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 is the Supreme Court split on Iskander Harappa's death sentence?
(a) 6-1.
(b) 5-2.
(c) 7-0.
(d) 4-3.

2. With what phrase does Sufiya Zinobia respond to the bridal advice given to her by her mother on the eve of her wedding?
(a) "I hate the ocean."
(b) "Men are smelly."
(c) "I hate fish."
(d) "Will there be cake?"

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What incriminating evidence does Raza Hyder find in his mentally-retarded daughter's room?

3. Of whom does Omar dream the night that Sufiya Zinobia is taken to the hospital?

4. To where does the President dispatch a huge army when Iskander is elected Prime Minister?

5. Where is Iskander Harappa initially detained after the coup?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Captain Talvar Ulhaq take great risk to steal Naveed Hyder from her arranged marriage to Haroun Harappa?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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