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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 is the system of delegating peoples into different segregated groups called in India?
(a) The perdu system.
(b) The gargu system.
(c) The ermad system.
(d) The caste system.

2. What come home after the bats leave, according to the narrator in the Prologue?
(a) The bears.
(b) The doves.
(c) The wolves.
(d) The crows.

3. What college play had the narrator performed in with the woman who had occupied his second floor?
(a) "The Merchant of Venice."
(b) "Romeo and Juliet."
(c) "Norman Is That You?"
(d) "To My Valentine."

4. In his pamphlets, how long does it say that Dr. Azad Bhartiya has been protesting in Chapter 4?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) 12 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Saddam Hussein fired from when he came to the cemetery?

2. Alongside whom was Anjum's mother buried in the cemetery?

3. What is the address printed on the mailbox where Saddam left a calling card in Chapter 5?

4. How is Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's ancestry described?

5. The narrator opens Chapter 1 with the line, "She lived in the graveyard like" (7) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where did Biplab Dasgupta first meet Tilo? How does the narrator describe his first impressions of her?

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

5. Why did Anjum accuse Saeeda of putting a hex on her family and the whole world in Chapter 2?

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

7. What is the female protagonist's relationship to the English-speaking man in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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