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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 desperate.
(b) The needed labor force.
(c) Surplus-people.
(d) The helpless poor.

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

3. How did Jahanara feel initially after discovering the "girl part" (11) on Aftab?
(a) Eager.
(b) Overjoyed.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Suicidal.

4. What did the filmmaker ask Anjum and her friends to recite in Chapter 3?
(a) "I'd buy the world a Coke."
(b) "Another World is Possible."
(c) "Hands Around the World."
(d) "Peace on Earth."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What poison has killed the white-backed vultures?

2. For how long does the narrator say the white-backed vultures have been the custodians of the dead in the Prologue?

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

4. The poison that wiped out the white-backed vultures was used as a relaxant on what animals?

5. From what types of trees does the narrator describe the flying foxes unhinging themselves in the Prologue?

(see the answer key)

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