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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Iqbal ask Meet Singh to do?
(a) Leave the city.
(b) Leave the country.
(c) Stop the killing.
(d) Help with the attack.

2. What does Chand reveal about Haseena?
(a) She is not on the refugee train.
(b) She has died.
(c) She is on the refugee train.
(d) She has been raped.

3. What does Jugga fear his mother has done?
(a) Killed herself.
(b) Left the village.
(c) Turned Nooran out.
(d) Killed Nooran.

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

5. What do the villagers find in the river in the morning?
(a) Dead Hindus.
(b) Dead Christians.
(c) Dead Muslims.
(d) Dead Sikhs.

6. What does Chand consider stupid?
(a) Not saying something straight.
(b) Being honest.
(c) Not being honest.
(d) Saying something straight.

7. What does Iqbal believe is the point of sacrifice?
(a) The end result.
(b) The karma.
(c) The purpose.
(d) The fame.

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

9. What lights up the railroad tracks?
(a) Fire.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) Spotlights.
(d) Moonlight.

10. What does Iqbal plan to do when he returns to Delhi?
(a) Report his arrest and find justice.
(b) Report his arrest and become a hero.
(c) Return home.
(d) Report his arrest and have the Subinspector fired.

11. What are the police to do with Malli and his men?
(a) Take them to Mano Majra.
(b) Execute them.
(c) Take them to Pakistan.
(d) Imprison them.

12. What does Jugga do to Malli?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Beats his head against the bars.
(c) Stabs him.
(d) Shoots him.

13. How many villagers volunteer?
(a) Less than ten.
(b) None.
(c) More than fifty.
(d) Over a hundred.

14. What is placed above the railway line?
(a) A rope.
(b) A steel beam.
(c) A guard post.
(d) A banner.

15. When Jugga is brought into Iqbal's cell, what does he claim?
(a) He is to blame for the fires.
(b) He killed Malli.
(c) He did not kill Lal.
(d) He killed the money lender.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the lambardar refuse to look after the property of the Muslims?

2. What does Prem Singh do at the hotel?

3. What does the head Constable's visit do to the citizens of Mano Majra?

4. What does Meet Singh do for Jugga?

5. What happens to the train at the end of the novel?

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