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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: "The Landlord".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does the narrator say the white-backed vultures have been the custodians of the dead in the Prologue?
(a) Over 500 million years.
(b) Over 100 million years.
(c) Over 20 million years.
(d) Over 40 million years.

2. 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) Mr. D. D. Gupta.
(d) Mulaqat Ali.

3. Why did the soldiers save Anjum's life, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Because they believed it was bad luck to kill a hijra.
(b) Because she was in disguise.
(c) Because she was pregnant.
(d) Because she held them at gunpoint until they fled.

4. When did the narrator of Chapter 7 meet the woman who had left his upstairs apartment in Chapter 7?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1984.

5. What did the filmmaker ask Anjum and her friends to recite in Chapter 3?
(a) "Hands Around the World."
(b) "Peace on Earth."
(c) "Another World is Possible."
(d) "I'd buy the world a Coke."

Short Answer Questions

1. What come home after the bats leave, according to the narrator in the Prologue?

2. To whom did the narrator manage to get Tilo handed over to in Chapter 7?

3. What does the narrator say the poor villagers were treated as in the opening of Chapter 3?

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

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

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