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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chand believe is the only absolute truth?
(a) Death.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Love.
(d) Pride.

3. Who gave the police the names of those responsible for Lal's murder?
(a) Iqbal.
(b) Jugga.
(c) Imam.
(d) Meet Singh.

4. How did the Sikhs respond to the killing of their people by the Muslims?
(a) They burned down the Muslim mosque.
(b) They raped the women of a village.
(c) They attacked a Muslim refugee train.
(d) They killed the children of a Muslim leader.

5. Why doesn't the lambardar tell the people what is happening?
(a) He was sworn to secrecy.
(b) He himself does not know.
(c) He doesn't wish to frighten the villagers.
(d) He is afraid.

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

7. What does Chand tell the Subinspector to do with Malli's gang?
(a) Arrest them.
(b) Let them go.
(c) Publicly hang them.
(d) Shoot them.

8. Who is the headman of the village?
(a) Banta Singh.
(b) Jugga Singh.
(c) Iqbal Singh.
(d) Meet Singh.

9. What is Chand doing to the girl when they hear a shot?
(a) Getting ready to make love to her.
(b) Feeding her.
(c) Scolding her.
(d) Giving her wine.

10. Why has Mano Majra become important in bureaucratic circles?
(a) The officer's rest house nearby.
(b) The railroad.
(c) The military presence in town.
(d) The church in the middle of the city.

11. What has happened to the trains since the partition of the country?
(a) They have increased in number.
(b) They have stopped coming.
(c) They have been early.
(d) They have been late.

12. What does Chand note the Subinspector and the village have not had, in terms of why they remain at peace?
(a) Trains of diseased people.
(b) Convoys of dead people.
(c) Trains of refugees.
(d) A loss of supplies.

13. What party does Iqbal work for?
(a) Muslim League.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The People's Party of India.
(d) The Communist Party.

14. How does the Subinspector determine Iqbal's faith?
(a) He checks to see if he has a tattoo.
(b) He checks to see if he is circumcised.
(c) He checks to see if he wears the bangles of the Sikh.
(d) He checks to see if he has a Holy Bible.

15. What happens to the soldiers that kill Sikhs in Jugga's story?
(a) They crash and die.
(b) They are arrested.
(c) They are murdered.
(d) They are robbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Subinspector tell Chand the villagers know nothing of?

2. What realization by Iqbal hurts his pride?

3. Why does Chand believe the Hindu women jumped into wells when faced with rape?

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

5. What are the villagers to collect and take to the trucks by the station?

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