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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. Of whom does Omar dream the night that Sufiya Zinobia is taken to the hospital?
(a) His mothers.
(b) Maulana Dawood.
(c) Eduardo Rodrigues.
(d) Farah Zoroaster.

2. Which of the following is NOT involved in the coup against Raza Hyder that is prematurely unveiled?
(a) Tughlak.
(b) Shuja.
(c) Ulhaq.
(d) Omar.

3. What concept does Sufiya Zinobia know about but does not understand?
(a) Money.
(b) Husbands.
(c) Wives.
(d) Babies.

4. What is the name of the political party of which Iskander Harappa becomes the leader after the present government loses popularity?
(a) The People's Liberation Front.
(b) The Popular Front.
(c) The Nationalist Party.
(d) The Islamic Socialist Party.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Raza Hyder is named, by the President, the National Minister of what?

2. What is lurking deep within Sufiya Zinobia?

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

4. What does Omar Khayyam take to eating while sitting alone in the attic of Raza Hyder's house?

5. Into what new organization of his own creation does Iskander Harappa make Talvar Ulhaq the head?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What becomes of Bilquis in her latter years?

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

4. How does Iskander Harappa finally die?

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

6. How does Iskander Harappa rise to power?

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

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

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

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

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