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

2. What poison has killed the white-backed vultures?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Diclofenac.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Agent Orange.

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

4. Who does the narrator say moved in with Anjum at her home in the cemetery in Chapter 2?
(a) Amrik Singh.
(b) Mulaqat Ali.
(c) Biplab Dasgupta.
(d) Zakir Mian.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What do the protagonist and the Englishman share with one another in Chapter 1?

5. In the Prologue, the narrator describes the flying foxes as they "drift across the city like smoke" (5). What literary device is used in this sentence?

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