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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Imtiaz show Nur and Deven when she finds them in Nur's room after her performance?
(a) The new poetry she has written.
(b) The dinner she has prepared for them.
(c) Nur's notebook of poetry.
(d) The rupees she has earned.

2. What fading language do Murad and Deven lament while at the restaurant in Chapter 1?
(a) Asur.
(b) Hindi.
(c) Bori.
(d) Urdu.

3. Why is Deven surprised at the company Nur keeps the first time he meets him?
(a) He has very few visitors.
(b) He imagined Nur would be a solitary man.
(c) The people are stiff and boring.
(d) They are old old intellectuals.

4. When Deven reflects on his life with Sarla, how does he see himself when they first married?
(a) More frightened than confident.
(b) More in love with Sarla than she was with him.
(c) More wife than husband.
(d) More poet than professor.

5. Where does Murad live?
(a) Pune.
(b) Mirpore.
(c) Delhi.
(d) Mumbai.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Nur when he and Deven go to the balcony for some privacy after Nur's rowdy friends arrive?

2. In Chapter 1, what does Deven tell Murad wives are always trying to get their husbands to do?

3. What does Murad ask Deven to do for his special Urdu issue?

4. In Chapter 3, what does Nur tells his friends Deven has come to do, which embarrasses Deven?

5. What does Deven wonder about regarding the paper he used to clean up Nur's vomit at the end of Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Nur? What does Murad want Deven to do in connection with Nur?

2. What does Nur tell his groups of friends Deven is there to do during his first visit in Chapter 3?

3. What does Nur tell Deven about Imtiaz when they speak after her performance in Chapter 5?

4. How does Nur react when Deven tells him he teaches Hindi and not Urdu at the college?

5. What did Deven do for Murad, which Murad has still not yet paid him?

6. What is Chandni Chowk like? What is Deven surprised Nur lives there?

7. What does Murad say about the food when Deven takes him out for lunch after his lectures in Chapter 1?

8. Why does Deven begin to question agreeing to interview Nur in Chapter 2 while he rides the bus to Delhi?

9. How is Mirpore described at the start of Chapter 2 while Deven rides from Mirpore to Delhi?

10. How are young Murad and Deven described in Chapter 1?

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