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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the mother who wrote the letter in Chapter 10 say that her mother was embarrassed by?
(a) Her pregnancy.
(b) Her ignorance.
(c) Her lack of coordination.
(d) Her dark skin color.

2. How did the mother who wrote the letter from Chapter 10 describe her father?
(a) Over-protective.
(b) Adoring.
(c) Abusive.
(d) Inspiring.

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

4. What kind of swimming pool did Anjum decide to build in Chapter 10?
(a) One that was heated.
(b) One without water.
(c) One with bubble jets.
(d) One that was natural.

5. What were Miss Jebeen and her mother watching from their balcony in the flashback in Chapter 9?
(a) A passing theater troop.
(b) A funeral procession.
(c) A church service.
(d) A religious festival.

6. Who was Tilo's mother?
(a) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(b) Jahanara Begum.
(c) Aijaz.
(d) Maryam Ipe.

7. Whose most extensive of the testimonies regarding Jalib Qadri's death claimed to have witnessed his execution in Chapter 9?
(a) The butcher's.
(b) The baker's.
(c) The barber's.
(d) The banker's.

8. How did Musa reply to Biplab's question as to whether he killed Amrik Singh in Chapter 11?
(a) He killed him but covered up the murder and blamed someone else.
(b) He did not kill him, but they made him kill himself.
(c) He killed him and payed his sentence.
(d) He did not kill him and was not near him when he died.

9. What is the dung beetle called in Chapter 12?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) Guih Kom.
(c) Arifa.
(d) Zainab.

10. What is the name of the mother whose letter is revealed in Chapter 10?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) Aijaz.
(c) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(d) Naga.

11. Biplab has read all of the documents from where in Chapter 11?
(a) Tilo's apartment.
(b) Arifa's office.
(c) Comrade Maase Revathy's home.
(d) The Grand Marshall's office.

12. Who does Amrik Singh leave Tilo in the hands of after Musa's escape in Chapter 9?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) ACP Pinky.
(c) Mulaqat Ali.
(d) Zakir Mian.

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

14. What did Miss Jebeen the Second's mother swear she would live and die by in the conclusion of her letter from Chapter 10?
(a) The hand of her husband.
(b) The hand of her father.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Her gun.

15. What does the narrator say that Jainab and Saddam had turned the graveyard into in Chapter 10 (405)?
(a) "A glass menagerie of the sorrowful."
(b) "A home among the greatest of mansions."
(c) "A Noah's ark of injured animals."
(d) "A reverie of angels."

Short Answer Questions

1. At whose grave was Anjum when she said a prayer in Chapter 12?

2. From what narrative tense is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness largely related?

3. Where is the hospital where Tilo's mother died?

4. Musa told Tilo in the basement in Chapter 9 to either get married to do what?

5. Which story from Tilo's journal describes wanting to write “one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about” (288)?

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