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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: "Khwabgah" (pages 62-99) and Chapter 3: "The Nativity".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the poor villagers were treated as in the opening of Chapter 3?
(a) The needed labor force.
(b) The helpless poor.
(c) Surplus-people.
(d) The desperate.

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

3. Who is the self-described sexologist that Mulaqat Ali took his son to see first?
(a) Dr. Ghulum Nabi.
(b) Amrik Singh.
(c) Saddam Hussein.
(d) Musa Yeswi.

4. To what story does the English man compare the story of Laila and Manju in Chapter 1?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) All's Well that Ends Well.

5. For how long does the narrator say the white-backed vultures have been the custodians of the dead in the Prologue?
(a) Over 40 million years.
(b) Over 500 million years.
(c) Over 20 million years.
(d) Over 100 million years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious conversion did Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed make upon arriving in Delhi?

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

3. Who is described as the "blind imam who had once led the prayers in the Fatehpuri Masjid" in Chapter 1?

4. 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?

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

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