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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What word best describes Omar's feeling towards life?
2. From what city is the story's narrator uprooted?
3. For how many days, roughly, does Raza Hyder go without sleep in order to watch over the refugees?
4. Where does Omar believe Hell is located?
5. What do Omar's mothers insist that he must never feel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What effect does voyeurism-by-proxy have on Omar's mothers, and what is possibly the consequence of this effect?
2. How is Bilquis' father's business ruined?
3. Why is Raza Hyder sent to the Needle Valley?
4. What happens to the real names of the three sisters, and by what names are they instead called?
5. What characterizes Bilquis' reaction to the Loo?
6. What are the lasting effects of Omar's birthday request upon his mothers?
7. How does Sindbad Mengal meet his fate?
8. How does Omar Khayyam describe himself to Iskander Harappa, as described at the end of Chapter 1?
9. Why are the children of the British colonials sent back to England after the age of eight to continue their educations?
10. Why does Raza Hyder stake himself to the ground in Iskander Harappa's yard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Periodically throughout the story, the fictional Pakistan undergoes periods of military coups and subsequent military rule. In an analytical essay, discuss the possible reasons and significance for this occasional turn to the military. What is sought by a military coup, implicitly or explicitly? What sort of men typically achieve high positions in the military? Why are such mean appealing in a time of instability? How do such men eventually also fall from governmental favor?
Essay Topic 2
Develop a character analysis of Maulana Dawood in an analytical essay on the archetypal religious zealot. In what ways does Maulana Dawood contrast with the rest of the characters in the story? Do his positions and arguments seem reasonable, or are they mere rantings of a fanatic? Are any of Dawood's objections, arguments, or opinions valid even when and if they are not fully reasonable? How do his actions and opinions influence others in the story (consider characters in addition to Raza Hyder)? What is his ultimate significance to the whole of the story?
Essay Topic 3
As a prominent female figure, Bilquis Hyder, always first hand to experience instability, reveals much about the position of women in Pakistani society as it is portrayed in Shame. How do the various positions into which Bilquis is put and the various attitudes she adopts throughout her life demonstrate the role of Pakistani women? What is significant about her physical appearance? What is significant about the manner in which she clothes herself throughout the story? What is significant about the inverted manner in which she is gradually clothed throughout her married life? What is her overall significance to the story?
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