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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 was Mulaqat Ali's profession?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Herbalist.
(c) Butcher.
(d) Merchant.

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

3. What does the word "Khwabgah" (23) translate to in English?
(a) "House of Courage."
(b) "House of Dreams."
(c) "House of Holiness."
(d) "House of Disdain."

4. How many siblings did Afrab have when he/she was born?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

5. What does the narrator say the poor villagers were treated as in the opening of Chapter 3?
(a) The desperate.
(b) Surplus-people.
(c) The needed labor force.
(d) The helpless poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Aftab adopt his hijras name?

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

3. When the Englishmen returned in Chapter 1 and told Manju that her name actually spoken backwards was not Manju, what did he say her real name was backwards?

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

5. What phrase does the narrator use to describe "when the sun has gone out but the light has not" (5) in the Prologue?

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