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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: "The Landlord" and Chapter 12: "Guih Kom".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the last entry of Tilo's notebook described in Chapter 18, there is a press release describing 17 village girls on tour of what locations?
(a) Vadodara and Ludhiana.
(b) Bathani, Mumbai, and Bihar.
(c) Patna, Mumbai, and Bhopal.
(d) Agra, Delhi, and Chandigarh.

2. The narrator in Chapter 9 describes Miss Jebeen as becoming one of the greatest martyrs of what movement?
(a) The Kabul movement.
(b) The Chuar movement.
(c) The Maharashtra movement.
(d) The Kashmiri movement.

3. To whom did the narrator manage to get Tilo handed over to in Chapter 7?
(a) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(b) Biplab Dasgupta.
(c) Naga.
(d) Comrade Maase Revathy.

4. From what narrative tense is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness largely related?
(a) Present Progressive tense.
(b) Future tense.
(c) Past tense.
(d) Present tense.

5. What political party did Miss Jebeen's mother adopt?
(a) Commercialism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Nazism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the narrative style in the beginning of Chapter 7 different from the narrative perspective in the majority of the novel?

2. At the Jannat Guest House, who taught classes in arithmetic, drawing, computer graphics, and "eccentricy" (403) in Chapter 10?

3. Biplab has read all of the documents from where in Chapter 11?

4. Whom did Anjum take for a walk around the city in Chapter 12?

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

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