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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. What did Miss Jebeen the Second's mother swear she would live and die by in the conclusion of her letter from Chapter 10?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Her gun.
(c) The hand of her husband.
(d) The hand of her father.

2. What is the name of the dog that accompanied Tilo in her escape in Chapter 8?
(a) Miss Jebeen.
(b) Comrade Laali.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.

3. What were the photographs of that Biplab discovered in Tilo's former apartment?
(a) A barn and houe.
(b) A dead child.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A horse.

4. How is the narrative style in the beginning of Chapter 7 different from the narrative perspective in the majority of the novel?
(a) This chapter begins narrated from a third-person perspective.
(b) This chapter begins narrated from the future-tense.
(c) This chapter begins narrated from the second-person perspective.
(d) This chapter begins narrated from a first-person perspective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the self-described sexologist that Mulaqat Ali took his son to see first?

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

3. Where are Musa's recoveries described as being stored in, in Chapter 8?

4. What word in Chapter 1 refers to an evening of entertainment poetry or concert of Indian classical music?

5. What did Tilo attribute to her decision to leave her husband in Chapter 8?

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