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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 prompted Saddam Hussein to change his name?
(a) His embracing of Judaism.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) His love of Italy.
(d) His father's death.

2. What come home after the bats leave, according to the narrator in the Prologue?
(a) The bears.
(b) The wolves.
(c) The crows.
(d) The doves.

3. Who is described by the narrator as having brought Anjum a black ram in Chapter 2?
(a) Mulaqat Ali.
(b) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(c) Biplab Dasgupta.
(d) Amrik Singh.

4. What word in Chapter 2 refers to a Muslim religious ascetic who lives on alms?
(a) Fakir.
(b) Accha.
(c) Theek.
(d) Dargah.

5. Alongside whom was Anjum's mother buried in the cemetery?
(a) Dr. Azad Bhartiya.
(b) Biplab Dasgupta.
(c) Mulaqat Ali.
(d) Mulaqat Ali.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious conversion did Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed make upon arriving in Delhi?

2. To what story does the English man compare the story of Laila and Manju in Chapter 1?

3. The poison that wiped out the white-backed vultures was used as a relaxant on what animals?

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

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

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