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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. Where was the social worker whose documents the narrator found in Tilo's apartment in Chapter 7?
(a) Clovis, California.
(b) Douglas City, California.
(c) Los Angeles, California.
(d) Annaheim, California.

2. Who was Tilo's mother?
(a) Aijaz.
(b) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(c) Maryam Ipe.
(d) Jahanara Begum.

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

4. Whose help did Tilo enlist in order to relocate with the baby in Chapter 8?
(a) Dr. Azad Bhartiya's.
(b) Jahanara Begum's.
(c) Damavand's.
(d) Nimmo Gorakhpuri's.

5. For how long had the narrator of Chapter 7 known the woman who had lived on the second floor of his building?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in the novel refers to the shrines over the grave of a revered religious figure?

2. Who is described in Chapter 7 as one of Amrik Singh's most brutal interrogators and was likely responsible for shaving Tilo's head?

3. What were the group of young men feeding to a hippo at the zoo when Tilo visited in Chapter 8?

4. What is the system of delegating peoples into different segregated groups called in India?

5. Who was the love of Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's life for whom he traveled to Delhi?

(see the answer key)

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