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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) Patna, Mumbai, and Bhopal.
(b) Bathani, Mumbai, and Bihar.
(c) Agra, Delhi, and Chandigarh.
(d) Vadodara and Ludhiana.

2. What did the group of young men feeding the hippo call Tilo in Chapter 8 (239)?
(a) "Crooked hag."
(b) "Nigger madam."
(c) "Old woman."
(d) "Muslim betrayer."

3. Where did the wedding party get lunch in Chapter 10?
(a) Zainab's.
(b) Arifa's.
(c) Aijaz's.
(d) Nando's.

4. Of what creature does the narrator ask in Chapter 6 whether it would remember the smell of the forest on the day it was born?
(a) .The Baby Seal.
(b) The White-Backed Vulture.
(c) The Dust Mite.
(d) The Dung Beetle.

5. Who read Musa a poem when he arrived in Chapter 12?
(a) Arifa.
(b) Aijaz.
(c) Comrade Maase Revathy
(d) Tilo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What address is on the card that Suddam left at the woman's house in Chapter 5?

2. Who is the high-profile terrorist that Major Amrik Singh described capturing to the narrator in Chapter 7?

3. Who had begun giving singing lessons again at the Jannat Guest House in Chapter 10?

4. How many siblings did Afrab have when he/she was born?

5. What did Miss Jebeen the Second's mother swear she would live and die by in the conclusion of her letter from Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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