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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 name of the young Kashmiri boy who was summoned by Ashfaq Mir in Chapter 8?
(a) Arifa.
(b) Zainab.
(c) Aijaz.
(d) Zakir.

2. The narrator in Chapter 9 describes Miss Jebeen as becoming one of the greatest martyrs of what movement?
(a) The Maharashtra movement.
(b) The Kabul movement.
(c) The Chuar movement.
(d) The Kashmiri movement.

3. Who was the popular university lecturer that was killed in the massacre in which Miss Jebeen died?
(a) Dr. Azad Bhartiya.
(b) Maggan.
(c) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(d) Usman Abdullah.

4. What did the residents of the Jannat Guest House rename the baby as in the conclusion of Chapter 10?
(a) Miss Udaya Jebeen.
(b) Naga.
(c) Aijaz.
(d) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.

5. Who became the new Prime Minister of India in Chapter 10?
(a) Dr. Azad Bhartiya.
(b) Mulaqat Ali.
(c) Gujarat ka Lalla.
(d) Comrade Maase Revathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What took place after a member of the wedding party announced his father had died at that location in Chapter 10?

2. In the last entry of Tilo's notebook described in Chapter 18, there is a press release describing 17 village girls on tour of what locations?

3. Who are the two people that Tilo was thinking of in the opening of Chapter 8?

4. What did the mother who wrote the letter in Chapter 10 say that her mother was embarrassed by?

5. What had the hijras decorated Tilo's room as in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were Tilo and the baby greeted at the Jannat Guest House in Chapter 8?

3. What classes were being taught at the Jannat Guest House in the beginning of Chapter 10?

4. How have the circumstances of Biplab Dasgupta's life changed in the opening of Chapter 11?

5. Why did Tilo flee in Chapter 8? Who did she enlist to help her?

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

7. What is Tilo's connection to the baby that appeared in the streets?

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

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

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

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