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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. What does "Jannat" translate to in English?
(a) "Submission."
(b) "Love."
(c) "Paradise."
(d) "Glory."
2. At what age did Aftab adopt his hijras name?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 19.
3. How is the narrative style in the beginning of Chapter 7 different from the narrative perspective in the majority of the novel?
(a) This chapter begins narrated from a third-person perspective.
(b) This chapter begins narrated from a first-person perspective.
(c) This chapter begins narrated from the second-person perspective.
(d) This chapter begins narrated from the future-tense.
4. How is Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's ancestry described?
(a) Syrian Christian.
(b) Orthodox Muslilm.
(c) Syrian Jew.
(d) Armenian Jew.
5. How old was Antun when she announced her decision to leave the Khwabgah?
(a) 46.
(b) 58.
(c) 15.
(d) 32.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the high-profile terrorist that Major Amrik Singh described capturing to the narrator in Chapter 7?
2. Whom does the narrator identify as the soldier that is being tortured in the photos in Tilo's apartment?
3. Whose death haunted Anjum as she tried to sleep in Chapter 3?
4. Nimmo Gorakpuri told Aftab in Chapter 2 that God created creatures like them because he wanted to create "a living creature that is incapable of" (27) what?
5. To whom did the narrator manage to get Tilo handed over to in Chapter 7?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Jahanara Begum react when she first discovered her "son's" sexual circumstances? Why?
2. What is signfificant about Zakir Mian's presence in Chapter 2?
3. What is the significance of the vultures' deaths in the Prologue?
4. How does the narrative style shift in the opening of Chapter 7? Why do you think the author makes this transition?
5. Compare and contrast the characters of Biplab Dasgupta and Dr. Azad Bhartiya.
6. How did Aftab come to be introduced to the setting of the Khwabgah? What does "Khwabgah" translate to in English?
7. How are the photographs described that Biplab Dasgupta first observed in Tilo's apartment in Chapter 7?
8. Why did Anjum accuse Saeeda of putting a hex on her family and the whole world in Chapter 2?
9. What information is announced on Dr. Azad Bhartiya's sign?
10. How did Biplab Dasgupta feel about the concept of jihad when he was stationed as Deputy Station Head for the Bureau in Srinagar?
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