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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 are Musa's recoveries described as being stored in, in Chapter 8?
(a) Food containers.
(b) Envelopes.
(c) Metal boxes.
(d) Burlap bags.

2. How many mobile phones of Musa's are described as part of his "recoveries" in Chapter 8?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Nine.

3. Into what type of family was Tilo's mother born?
(a) An Egyptian Muslim family.
(b) An American Christian family.
(c) An Armenian Jewish family.
(d) A Syrian Christian family.

4. What kind of swimming pool did Anjum decide to build in Chapter 10?
(a) One with bubble jets.
(b) One that was natural.
(c) One that was heated.
(d) One without water.

5. What political party did Miss Jebeen's mother adopt?
(a) Commercialism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Nazism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zainab do with the crow he found trapped in Chapter 10?

2. Whose most extensive of the testimonies regarding Jalib Qadri's death claimed to have witnessed his execution in Chapter 9?

3. The narrator in Chapter 9 describes Miss Jebeen as becoming one of the greatest martyrs of what movement?

4. What does the narrator say that Jainab and Saddam had turned the graveyard into in Chapter 10 (405)?

5. On what houseboat did Tilo meet Commander Gulrez in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was indicated by the death of Usman Abdullah in Chapter 9?

2. What questions are posed to the reader regarding the men crushed by the truck in Chapter 8? Why are these questions significant?

3. What are comprised of Musa's "recoveries"?

4. How is Tilo's mother described? How did Tilo feel about her mother?

5. Where was Miss Jebeen the First buried? How did she die?

6. How is the encounter between Biplab Dasgupta and Musa described in Chapter 11?

7. What story did Musa recall telling his daughter in Chapter 9? What was Musa doing as he recalled this memory?

8. How has Biplab Dasgupta's outlook on Indian politics changed by Chapter 11?

9. What is described in the poem from Chapter 12 and how does it connect to the themes of the novel?

10. What is included in Tilo's notebook that she examined in Chapter 8? Why did Musa have this notebook?

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