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

2. To what story does the English man compare the story of Laila and Manju in Chapter 1?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) All's Well that Ends Well.

3. Who is described as a building contractor and Anjun's friend who visited her at the cemetery in Chapter 2?
(a) Zainab.
(b) Zakir Mian.
(c) Mulaqat Ali.
(d) Mr. D. D. Gupta.

4. How is gender applied to Urdu?
(a) There are no genders for any nouns.
(b) All animal-based nouns have specific genders.
(c) Some nouns have genders and others do not.
(d) There is a gender for every noun.

5. Who is the Station House Officer that arrested Saddam's father?
(a) Kabul.
(b) Bangalore.
(c) Sehrawat.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does the narrator say the white-backed vultures have been the custodians of the dead in the Prologue?

2. How old was Antun when she announced her decision to leave the Khwabgah?

3. What poison has killed the white-backed vultures?

4. What was Mulaqat Ali's profession?

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

(see the answer key)

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