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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chand suggest they do with the Muslims?
(a) Get them to leave peacefully.
(b) Force them to leave.
(c) Rob them.
(d) Kill them.

2. What does the word Monsoon really signify?
(a) A rainstorm.
(b) A season.
(c) A summer rain.
(d) A disaster.

3. What does Iqbal believe is the reason that he and Jugga are treated differently?
(a) He is not a troublemaker.
(b) The caste system.
(c) He is English.
(d) He is more attractive.

4. Who have started crowding on all trains?
(a) Dacoits.
(b) Criminals.
(c) Refugees.
(d) Soldiers.

5. Where do the men find Lala hiding?
(a) In the barn.
(b) Inside the cellar.
(c) In the shower.
(d) Under the bed.

6. What does Chand see as the immediate problem?
(a) Saving Sikh lives in Mano Majra.
(b) Saving Christian lives in Mano Majra.
(c) Saving Muslim lives in Mano Majra.
(d) Saving Hindu lives in Mano Majra.

7. How did the hijras escape being killed?
(a) They made the Hindus laugh.
(b) They made the Sikhs laugh.
(c) They made the Christians laugh.
(d) They made the Muslims laugh.

8. What do local police consider Jugga?
(a) A troublemaker.
(b) A guru.
(c) A gentleman.
(d) A priest.

9. What value is placed above others in the Punjabi, according to Iqbal?
(a) Being a person of moral value.
(b) Being true to ones self.
(c) Being true to one's fellow villager.
(d) Saving one's family.

10. What does Chand do with the young prostitute in the middle of Chapter two, section two?
(a) Falls asleep next to her.
(b) Makes love to her.
(c) Rapes her.
(d) Kills her.

11. What do the citizens call the dark age?
(a) The Kalyug.
(b) The Wara.
(c) The Coming.
(d) The Entya.

12. Where did Chand spend his time in order to purge himself of the obsession?
(a) A house of prostitution.
(b) The crematorium.
(c) A garage.
(d) A courthouse.

13. What does the Subinspector tell Chand the villagers know nothing of?
(a) The plague.
(b) The economic crisis.
(c) The leaving of the British.
(d) The war with the United States.

14. What does Iqbal believe the country should focus on instead of industry and agriculture?
(a) Stopping immigration.
(b) Stopping crime.
(c) Halting emigration.
(d) Halting the exploding population.

15. What does Chand do to the young girl at the end of this section?
(a) Begins making love to her.
(b) Berates her.
(c) Threatens her.
(d) Kills her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lala offer the men to leave?

2. What happens to the soldiers that kill Sikhs in Jugga's story?

3. What do the villagers smell at the end of this section?

4. What makes the police officers believe they have made a mistake?

5. What wakes Chand, following the discussion of the monsoon?

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