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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. 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 hers.
(c) Because it was not hers.
(d) Because it was her sister's.

2. How has Dr. Azad Bhartiya been protesting in Chapter 4?
(a) By playing protest music.
(b) By fasting.
(c) By chaining himself to a building.
(d) By marching.

3. How did Jahanara feel initially after discovering the "girl part" (11) on Aftab?
(a) Eager.
(b) Suicidal.
(c) Overjoyed.
(d) Jealous.

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

5. What does the protagonist in Chapter 1 use to sooth her hurts and blows?
(a) The breath of the sun.
(b) The whispers of her dreams.
(c) The sound of the lapping waves.
(d) The music of her leaves.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was the love of Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's life for whom he traveled to Delhi?

4. What word in the novel refers to the shrines over the grave of a revered religious figure?

5. With whom did Aftab take music lessons at the madrassa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What animals are described in the Prologue? What is their connection to the story?

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

5. What exchange takes place between Anjum and the blind imam in Chapter 1? What does Anjum realize from this exchange?

6. How is the exchange at the house described with Saddam, Ishrat, and the mysterious woman?

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

8. How is the protagonist described as living in the cemetery in Chapter 1?

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

10. What led Saddam Hussein to his dream of opening a funeral parlor? Where did he hope to open one?

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