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

2. Who kills Iskander Harappa?
(a) Shuja.
(b) Raza.
(c) The hangman.
(d) Omar.

3. Into what new organization of his own creation does Iskander Harappa make Talvar Ulhaq the head?
(a) The Security Forces of Pakistan.
(b) The Federal Security Forces.
(c) The Federal Defense Force.
(d) The National Department of Defense.

4. To where does the President dispatch a huge army when Iskander is elected Prime Minister?
(a) India.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Eastern Pakistan.
(d) Iran.

5. Raza Hyder is named, by the President, the National Minister of what?
(a) Education, Literacy, and Trade.
(b) Wealth, Finances, and Internal Revenue.
(c) Education, Information, and Tourism.
(d) Religion and Ministry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Out of what movie does Iskander copy a scene when addressing a large crowd?

3. Whose cadaver is prominently depicted on the last of Rani's shawls?

4. What does Iskander Harappa, while imprisoned, begin to chew in the absence of his cigars?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Iskander Harappa finally die?

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

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

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