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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. 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) Arifa and Zakir Mian.
(c) Musa and Amrik Singh.
(d) Jahanara Begum and Zainab.

2. What did the group of young men feeding the hippo call Tilo in Chapter 8 (239)?
(a) "Nigger madam."
(b) "Crooked hag."
(c) "Old woman."
(d) "Muslim betrayer."

3. To whom did the narrator manage to get Tilo handed over to in Chapter 7?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(c) Naga.
(d) Biplab Dasgupta.

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

5. What word in Chapter 2 refers to a Muslim religious ascetic who lives on alms?
(a) Accha.
(b) Theek.
(c) Dargah.
(d) Fakir.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's ancestry described?

2. Nimmo Gorakpuri told Aftab in Chapter 2 that God created creatures like them because he wanted to create "a living creature that is incapable of" (27) what?

3. At what age did Aftab adopt his hijras name?

4. Where was the social worker whose documents the narrator found in Tilo's apartment in Chapter 7?

5. What was the charge that Saddam's father faced when he was arrested?

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