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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the house originally built for?
(a) The engineer in charge of building the bridge.
(b) The local priest.
(c) The major.
(d) The colonel.

2. What does the young girl who comes to the rest house with the old woman do?
(a) She cooks.
(b) She sings and dances.
(c) She cleans.
(d) She is a barber.

3. What does Chand fear the rain will do?
(a) Cause the violence to increase.
(b) Put out the fire in the villages.
(c) Put out the fire burning the corpses.
(d) Cause the river to swell.

4. What is the Sutlej?
(a) The capital of Pakistan.
(b) The capital of India.
(c) The largest river in the Punjab.
(d) The smallest river in the Punjab.

5. In what year does the story take place?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1850.

6. 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) A loss of supplies.
(c) Trains of refugees.
(d) Convoys of dead people.

7. What do the villagers smell at the end of this section?
(a) The smell of the trains moving.
(b) Flood waters rising.
(c) Dead bodies being burned.
(d) The wood stoves being lit.

8. What is happening in India during the time of the book?
(a) The Americans have invaded India.
(b) The Muslims have taken over India.
(c) The British are moving into India.
(d) The Hindus and Muslims are in a war.

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

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

11. Who is the only Hindu in Mano Majra?
(a) Nooran Baksh.
(b) Iqbal Singh.
(c) Lala Ram Lal.
(d) Jugga Singh.

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

13. What does Chand associate his guilt over the girl to?
(a) The events the night before.
(b) His loyalty to his wife.
(c) His morality.
(d) His hangover.

14. What realization by Iqbal hurts his pride?
(a) That he is being evacuated because he is a Sikh.
(b) That he was robbed because he was a social worker.
(c) That he is being evacuated because he is a Muslim.
(d) That he is being arrested for murder.

15. What does Iqbal claim to be, in terms of his profession?
(a) A social worker.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the headman of the village?

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

3. What do those placing matrimonial ads ask for?

4. Where does the stranger go when he enters town?

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

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