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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: "Khwabgah" (pages 11-62) .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Antun when she announced her decision to leave the Khwabgah?
(a) 15.
(b) 46.
(c) 58.
(d) 32.

2. 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) "Love to God. God's love returns."
(c) "Truth is God. God is Truth."
(d) "One is all. All is One."

3. 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?
(a) "Consequence."
(b) "Sex."
(c) "Worry."
(d) "Happiness."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ghosts does the protagonist in Chapter 1 confer with daily?

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

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

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

5. Who is described as the "blind imam who had once led the prayers in the Fatehpuri Masjid" in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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