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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Prologue, the narrator describes the flying foxes as they "drift across the city like smoke" (5). What literary device is used in this sentence?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Flashback.

2. How is the following phrase translated into English in Chapter 1? "Sach Khuda hai. Khuda hi Sach hai" (9)?
(a) "Truth is freedom. Freedom is truth."
(b) "Love to God. God's love returns."
(c) "One is all. All is One."
(d) "Truth is God. God is Truth."

3. From where did the woman in the window above the lavendar gate recognize Saddam and Ishrat in Chapter 5?
(a) From Ahmedabad.
(b) From Jantar Mantar.
(c) From Bangalore..
(d) From Kolkata.

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

5. What word in Chapter 2 refers to a Muslim religious ascetic who lives on alms?
(a) Dargah.
(b) Accha.
(c) Theek.
(d) Fakir.

6. The narrator opens Chapter 1 with the line, "She lived in the graveyard like" (7) what?
(a) "A flower."
(b) "A tombstone."
(c) "A tree."
(d) "A blade of grass."

7. What did Anjum name the little three-year-old girl she found on the steps of Jama Masjid?
(a) Arifa.
(b) Zainab.
(c) Musa.
(d) Amrik.

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

9. For how long had the narrator of Chapter 7 known the woman who had lived on the second floor of his building?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 30 years.

10. Why does the narrator say that the woman in the window was happy when the baby fell asleep?
(a) Because it was a girl.
(b) Because it was her sister's.
(c) Because it was hers.
(d) Because it was not hers.

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

12. What do the protagonist and the Englishman share with one another in Chapter 1?
(a) A Coca Cola.
(b) A plate of rice.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) A bottle of whiskey.

13. Who is the high-profile terrorist that Major Amrik Singh described capturing to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) Biplab Dasgupta.
(b) Commander Gulrez.
(c) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(d) Comrade Maase Revathy.

14. Who was the love of Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's life for whom he traveled to Delhi?
(a) Amrik Singh.
(b) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(c) Abhay Chand.
(d) Zainab.

15. What name refers to Aftab later in life?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) Zainab.
(c) Arifa.
(d) Anjun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the photographs of that Biplab discovered in Tilo's former apartment?

2. What is the name of the mare described following the rickshaw in Chapter 5?

3. Who visited to gather some of Tilo's clothing in the end of Chapter 7?

4. Whose ghosts does the protagonist in Chapter 1 confer with daily?

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

(see the answer keys)

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