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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. Who is described by the narrator as having brought Anjum a black ram in Chapter 2?
(a) Mulaqat Ali.
(b) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(c) Amrik Singh.
(d) Biplab Dasgupta.

2. The narrator opens Chapter 1 with the line, "She lived in the graveyard like" (7) what?
(a) "A tombstone."
(b) "A flower."
(c) "A blade of grass."
(d) "A tree."

3. Who is described as a building contractor and Anjun's friend who visited her at the cemetery in Chapter 2?
(a) Zakir Mian.
(b) Mulaqat Ali.
(c) Mr. D. D. Gupta.
(d) Zainab.

4. How is gender applied to Urdu?
(a) Some nouns have genders and others do not.
(b) All animal-based nouns have specific genders.
(c) There is a gender for every noun.
(d) There are no genders for any nouns.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the poor villagers were treated as in the opening of Chapter 3?

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

3. Who does the narrator say moved in with Anjum at her home in the cemetery in Chapter 2?

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

5. When the Englishmen returned in Chapter 1 and told Manju that her name actually spoken backwards was not Manju, what did he say her real name was backwards?

(see the answer key)

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