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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: "The Tenant" (pages 268-317) .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Aftab take music lessons at the madrassa?
(a) Biplab Dasgupta.
(b) Amrik Singh.
(c) Ustad Hameed Khan.
(d) Musa Yeswi.

2. From what types of trees does the narrator describe the flying foxes unhinging themselves in the Prologue?
(a) Banyan trees.
(b) Elm trees.
(c) Oak tree.
(d) Willow trees.

3. Whose help did Tilo enlist in order to relocate with the baby in Chapter 8?
(a) Damavand's.
(b) Jahanara Begum's.
(c) Dr. Azad Bhartiya's.
(d) Nimmo Gorakhpuri's.

4. Where is the hospital where Tilo's mother died?
(a) Damavand.
(b) Cochin.
(c) Abyek
(d) Abadan

5. Who are the two people that Tilo was thinking of in the opening of Chapter 8?
(a) Jahanara Begum and Zainab.
(b) Musa and Amrik Singh.
(c) Miss Jebeen and Miss Jebeen the Second.
(d) Arifa and Zakir Mian.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Tilo imagine a series of letters written from the four crushed boys in Chapter 8?

2. What are Musa's recoveries described as being stored in, in Chapter 8?

3. Where did the narrator of Chapter 7 long to return?

4. Whom does the narrator identify as the soldier that is being tortured in the photos in Tilo's apartment?

5. Why does the narrator say that "Not many noticed the passing of the friendly old birds" (5) in the Prologue?

(see the answer key)

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