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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: "The Untimely Death of Miss Jebeen the First".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Anjum use to sleep on in the cemetery in Chapter 3?
(a) A bedspread.
(b) A sleeping bag.
(c) A blanket of leaves.
(d) A rolled carpet.

2. What did the filmmaker ask Anjum and her friends to recite in Chapter 3?
(a) "I'd buy the world a Coke."
(b) "Another World is Possible."
(c) "Hands Around the World."
(d) "Peace on Earth."

3. What college play had the narrator performed in with the woman who had occupied his second floor?
(a) "To My Valentine."
(b) "Romeo and Juliet."
(c) "Norman Is That You?"
(d) "The Merchant of Venice."

4. Who was supposedly made a scapegoat for Jalib Qadri's death?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(c) Amrik Singh.
(d) Biplab Dasgupta.

5. How is the narrative style in the beginning of Chapter 7 different from the narrative perspective in the majority of the novel?
(a) This chapter begins narrated from a first-person perspective.
(b) This chapter begins narrated from a third-person perspective.
(c) This chapter begins narrated from the future-tense.
(d) This chapter begins narrated from the second-person perspective.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Chapter 9 describes Miss Jebeen as becoming one of the greatest martyrs of what movement?

2. When did the Bhopal disaster occur?

3. Where was Miss Jebeen buried?

4. Whose death haunted Anjum as she tried to sleep in Chapter 3?

5. What does Kashmini "protocol" (372) refer to in regards to Musa and Tito's sexual engagement in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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