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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the group going to do with the rope?
(a) Hang Muslims.
(b) Hang Sikhs.
(c) Derail the train.
(d) String it over the tracks to kill those on the roof of the train.

2. What does the little boy report about the river?
(a) It is rising.
(b) It is dried up.
(c) It is red with blood.
(d) It is lowering.

3. What does the leader do to Jugga?
(a) Thanks him.
(b) Stabs him.
(c) Robs him.
(d) Shoots him.

4. Why did the camp commander decide to evacuate by train immediately?
(a) They are safer escaping by night.
(b) They were out of food.
(c) They had no where to sleep.
(d) There was danger of an attack on the camp.

5. Where does the lambardar go at the end of this section?
(a) The railway station.
(b) The police station.
(c) The bridge.
(d) The river.

6. What is Jugga's immediate concern?
(a) Nooran's fate.
(b) His mother's fate.
(c) The plans of Malli.
(d) His father's fate.

7. Who offers to care for the Muslim's belongings?
(a) Meet Singh.
(b) Malli and his gang.
(c) Iqbal.
(d) Jugga and his gang.

8. Who does Iqbal share his cell with for the first week?
(a) Malli.
(b) Sahib.
(c) No one.
(d) Jugga.

9. What does Meet Singh argue, in terms of why the Sikhs of the village should remain neutral?
(a) The Muslims have done nothing to them.
(b) The Sikhs have done for them.
(c) The Christians have done nothing to them.
(d) The Hindus have done nothing to them.

10. What does Chand demand the Subinspector do with Iqbal and Jugga?
(a) Release them to Mano Majra.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Put them on the refugee train.
(d) Keep them in jail.

11. Who does the Subinspector note would have killed the Muslims, had they stayed?
(a) Meet Singh.
(b) Iqbal.
(c) Jugga.
(d) Malli.

12. What religion does Iqbal finally claim in this chapter?
(a) Hindu.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Sikh.
(d) Muslim.

13. Where did the Subinspector have to evacuate?
(a) Chundunnegger.
(b) Millanra.
(c) Mano Majra.
(d) Chanardia.

14. What does Jugga's mother promise Nooran?
(a) Jugga will come get her when he can.
(b) She will kill Jugga.
(c) She will send her money.
(d) She will keep her safe.

15. What does Jugga and the group see in villages on the road?
(a) They are crowded with refugees.
(b) They are burned to the ground.
(c) They are deserted.
(d) They are flooded.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jugga go to see Meet Singh?

2. What does Iqbal plan to do when he returns to Delhi?

3. What does Chand reveal about Haseena?

4. What does the young boy at the temple suggest the villagers do?

5. What is in the train that arrives at the station in this section?

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