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

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

3. Who is described as a building contractor and Anjun's friend who visited her at the cemetery in Chapter 2?
(a) Mulaqat Ali.
(b) Zakir Mian.
(c) Mr. D. D. Gupta.
(d) Zainab.

4. What does the word "Khwabgah" (23) translate to in English?
(a) "House of Courage."
(b) "House of Holiness."
(c) "House of Disdain."
(d) "House of Dreams."

5. Who is described in Chapter 7 as one of Amrik Singh's most brutal interrogators and was likely responsible for shaving Tilo's head?
(a) Biplab Dasgupta.
(b) Pinky Sodhi.
(c) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(d) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's name revealed to be in Chapter 7?

2. What religious conversion did Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed make upon arriving in Delhi?

3. What is the name of the mare described following the rickshaw in Chapter 5?

4. When did the narrator of Chapter 7 meet the woman who had left his upstairs apartment in Chapter 7?

5. What was Mulaqat Ali's profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Tilo's appearance described during her second wedding? What caused this change in appearance?

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

3. How does the narrative style shift in the opening of Chapter 7? Why do you think the author makes this transition?

4. How did Anjum's home in the cemetery evolve over time?

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

6. What aspects of the government and the current circumstances was Dr. Azad Bhartiya protesting? How?

7. How did Aftab come to be introduced to the setting of the Khwabgah? What does "Khwabgah" translate to in English?

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

9. How did Biplab Dasgupta feel about the concept of jihad when he was stationed as Deputy Station Head for the Bureau in Srinagar?

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

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