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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose help did Tilo enlist in order to relocate with the baby in Chapter 8?
(a) Nimmo Gorakhpuri's.
(b) Dr. Azad Bhartiya's.
(c) Damavand's.
(d) Jahanara Begum's.

2. What are Musa's recoveries described as being stored in, in Chapter 8?
(a) Food containers.
(b) Burlap bags.
(c) Metal boxes.
(d) Envelopes.

3. 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?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Metaphor.

4. Of what creature does the narrator ask in Chapter 6 whether it would remember the smell of the forest on the day it was born?
(a) .The Baby Seal.
(b) The White-Backed Vulture.
(c) The Dust Mite.
(d) The Dung Beetle.

5. What kind of swimming pool did Anjum decide to build in Chapter 10?
(a) One that was heated.
(b) One with bubble jets.
(c) One without water.
(d) One that was natural.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Saddam Hussein find a job in America?

2. When did the messenger tell Tilo that Musa would meet her after his escape in Chapter 9?

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

4. When did the narrator of Chapter 7 meet the woman who had left his upstairs apartment in Chapter 7?

5. Who does Amrik Singh leave Tilo in the hands of after Musa's escape in Chapter 9?

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