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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose death haunted Anjum as she tried to sleep in Chapter 3?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy's death.
(b) Zakir Mian's death.
(c) Zainab's death.
(d) Arifa's death.

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

3. How is gender applied to Urdu?
(a) All animal-based nouns have specific genders.
(b) There are no genders for any nouns.
(c) Some nouns have genders and others do not.
(d) There is a gender for every noun.

4. Where was Saddam Hussein fired from when he came to the cemetery?
(a) The bank.
(b) The mortuary.
(c) The bakery.
(d) The school.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the charge that Saddam's father faced when he was arrested?

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

4. What did Anjum use to sleep on in the cemetery in Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What information is related in the document from the social worker in Clovis, California that Biplab Dasgupta found in Chapter 7?

2. Why were Anjum, Mr. Aggarwal, and Ustad Hameed arrested in Chapter 3?

3. Where was Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed from and why did he come to India?

4. How does the structure differ in Chapter 6 from the rest of the narrative? What is this chapter comprised of?

5. What led to Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's execution? How was he killed?

6. How does Biplab Dasgupta feel about the area of Delhi where his rental apartments are located? Why?

7. What is the significance of the vultures' deaths in the Prologue?

8. What information is announced on Dr. Azad Bhartiya's sign?

9. How old was Atfat when his mother finally told his father about his condition? How did Mulaqat Ali respond?

10. How did Jahanara Begum react when she first discovered her "son's" sexual circumstances? Why?

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