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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 phrase does the narrator use to describe "when the sun has gone out but the light has not" (5) in the Prologue?
(a) "The golden hour."
(b) "The witching hour."
(c) "The silent hour."
(d) "The magic hour."

2. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

3. What does the word "chamar" translate to in English?
(a) "Untouchable."
(b) "Hermaphrodite."
(c) "Beloved."
(d) "Bisexual."

4. What was the charge that Saddam's father faced when he was arrested?
(a) Theft.
(b) Robbery.
(c) Cow-slaughter.
(d) Murder.

5. What did Anjum use to sleep on in the cemetery in Chapter 3?
(a) A blanket of leaves.
(b) A sleeping bag.
(c) A rolled carpet.
(d) A bedspread.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is gender applied to Urdu?

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

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

4. What word in the novel refers to the shrines over the grave of a revered religious figure?

5. 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?

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