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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) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) Arifa.
(c) Zainab.
(d) Anjun.

2. What was Mulaqat Ali's profession?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Merchant.
(d) Herbalist.

3. How is the following phrase translated into English in Chapter 1? "Sach Khuda hai. Khuda hi Sach hai" (9)?
(a) "Truth is freedom. Freedom is truth."
(b) "One is all. All is One."
(c) "Love to God. God's love returns."
(d) "Truth is God. God is Truth."

4. 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.

5. What religious conversion did Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed make upon arriving in Delhi?
(a) He converted from Orthodox Islam to Judaism.
(b) He converted from Judaism to Christian.
(c) He converted from Sufism to Judaism.
(d) He converted from Judaism to Orthodox Islam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in Chapter 2 refers to a Muslim religious ascetic who lives on alms?

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

3. Alongside whom was Anjum's mother buried in the cemetery?

4. What does "la ilaha" (13) translate to in English?

5. Who is the Station House Officer that arrested Saddam's father?

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