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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: "The Tenant" (pages 217-268) .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age did Aftab adopt his hijras name?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 19.

2. What does "la ilaha" (13) translate to in English?
(a) "There is no God."
(b) "Praise Allah."
(c) "Allah as God."
(d) "The love of God."

3. Who are the two people that Tilo was thinking of in the opening of Chapter 8?
(a) Miss Jebeen and Miss Jebeen the Second.
(b) Jahanara Begum and Zainab.
(c) Musa and Amrik Singh.
(d) Arifa and Zakir Mian.

4. What was Ashfaq Mir's position when he met with Naga in 1996?
(a) Deputy Commandant of the Shira Cinema JIC.
(b) Director of Activities at the National Museum.
(c) CEO of Intergalactic Technology, Inc.
(d) Deputy Commandant of the Arima Cinema.

5. What is the system of delegating peoples into different segregated groups called in India?
(a) The perdu system.
(b) The ermad system.
(c) The caste system.
(d) The gargu system.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the high-profile terrorist that Major Amrik Singh described capturing to the narrator in Chapter 7?

2. What is the narrator's name revealed to be in Chapter 7?

3. What incident did Dr. Azad Bhartiya refer to as "the second assassination attempt" (135) on him in Chapter 4?

4. How is gender applied to Urdu?

5. Whose arrest, torture, and killing was Major Amrik Singh responsible for, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?

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