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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the narrator of Chapter 7 long to return?
(a) Kolkata.
(b) Bangalore.
(c) Kabul.
(d) Mumbai.

2. What does the narrator describe awaiting in the opening of Chapter 7?
(a) To commit an assassination.
(b) To be certified fit for service.
(c) To be married.
(d) To move to the United States.

3. What poison has killed the white-backed vultures?
(a) Diclofenac.
(b) Agent Orange.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Gasoline.

4. Alongside whom was Anjum's mother buried in the cemetery?
(a) Mulaqat Ali.
(b) Mulaqat Ali.
(c) Biplab Dasgupta.
(d) Dr. Azad Bhartiya.

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

6. What does the narrator say that Dr. Azad Bhartiya was protesting in Chapter 4?
(a) The rise of Fascism.
(b) The abuse of women.
(c) The Capitalist Empire.
(d) The usurping of the King.

7. What address is on the card that Suddam left at the woman's house in Chapter 5?
(a) The address of Biplab Dasgupta.
(b) The address of the Jannat Guest House.
(c) The address of Dr. Azad Bhartiya.
(d) The address of Ziauddin.

8. What does the word "Khwabgah" (23) translate to in English?
(a) "House of Dreams."
(b) "House of Courage."
(c) "House of Holiness."
(d) "House of Disdain."

9. How is Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's ancestry described?
(a) Armenian Jew.
(b) Syrian Christian.
(c) Syrian Jew.
(d) Orthodox Muslilm.

10. Who is the self-described sexologist that Mulaqat Ali took his son to see first?
(a) Saddam Hussein.
(b) Musa Yeswi.
(c) Dr. Ghulum Nabi.
(d) Amrik Singh.

11. Who is the Station House Officer that arrested Saddam's father?
(a) Bangalore.
(b) Sehrawat.
(c) California.
(d) Kabul.

12. When does the narrator in Chapter 7 describe receiving a phone call from Major Amrik Singh while violence was brewing in the city?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1985.

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

14. What does the word "chamar" translate to in English?
(a) "Bisexual."
(b) "Hermaphrodite."
(c) "Untouchable."
(d) "Beloved."

15. In his pamphlets, how long does it say that Dr. Azad Bhartiya has been protesting in Chapter 4?
(a) 16 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 9 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mulaqat Ali's profession?

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

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

4. How is gender applied to Urdu?

5. What is the narrator's name revealed to be in Chapter 7?

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