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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many siblings did Afrab have when he/she was born?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

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

3. What shared experience does Anjum conclude she shares with the imam in Chapter 1?
(a) Envy.
(b) Judgment.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Hatred.

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

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

6. For how long does the narrator say the white-backed vultures have been the custodians of the dead in the Prologue?
(a) Over 20 million years.
(b) Over 100 million years.
(c) Over 500 million years.
(d) Over 40 million years.

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

8. What were the photographs of that Biplab discovered in Tilo's former apartment?
(a) A dead child.
(b) A barn and houe.
(c) A horse.
(d) An old woman.

9. What is the name of the mare described following the rickshaw in Chapter 5?
(a) Aru.
(b) Pria.
(c) Payal.
(d) Annu.

10. Where did Saddam Hussein find a job in America?
(a) The National Gallery of Modern Art.
(b) The Met.
(c) The Lucille Lortel Theater.
(d) The Museum of Modern Art.

11. Who was supposedly made a scapegoat for Jalib Qadri's death?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) Biplab Dasgupta.
(c) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(d) Amrik Singh.

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

13. What object belonging to the mother is described as touching the baby's skin in Chapter 6?
(a) A sword.
(b) A bedpan.
(c) A gun.
(d) A drum.

14. Who visited to gather some of Tilo's clothing in the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Naga.
(b) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(c) Anjun and Saddam.
(d) Amrik Singh.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose arrest, torture, and killing was Major Amrik Singh responsible for, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?

2. What do the protagonist and the Englishman share with one another in Chapter 1?

3. What does the word "chamar" translate to in English?

4. To what does the narrator describe Tilottama's skin in Chapter 7?

5. What word in Chapter 1 refers to an evening of entertainment poetry or concert of Indian classical music?

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