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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 name refers to Aftab later in life?
(a) Anjun.
(b) Zainab.
(c) Arifa.
(d) Comrade Maase Revathy.

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

3. Where did Saddam Hussein find a job in America?
(a) The National Gallery of Modern Art.
(b) The Met.
(c) The Lucille Lortel Theater.
(d) The Museum of Modern Art.

4. What come home after the bats leave, according to the narrator in the Prologue?
(a) The crows.
(b) The bears.
(c) The wolves.
(d) The doves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jahanara feel initially after discovering the "girl part" (11) on Aftab?

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

3. The narrator opens Chapter 1 with the line, "She lived in the graveyard like" (7) what?

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

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

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