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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 the narrator say is Sufiya Zinobia's relation to Omar?
(a) She is his cousin.
(b) She becomes his best friend.
(c) She is his long-lost sister.
(d) She is his wife.

2. What is intended by Bilal to be draped over Omar's neck after his 12th birthday?
(a) An ox's yoke.
(b) A necklace of pearls.
(c) A necklace of shoes.
(d) A lock of his mothers' hair.

3. What do Omar's mothers insist that he must never feel?
(a) Curiousity.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pride.
(d) Shame.

4. Which of the following is one of Farah Zoroaster's nicknames?
(a) Godsend.
(b) Disaster.
(c) The Ice Cube.
(d) Demolition.

5. For how long does Omar sleep at night?
(a) 40 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 50 minutes.
(d) 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Bilquis habitually afraid?

2. Besides Omar, who is Eduardo Rodrigues' best student in the town of Q?

3. The men who visit the women at night in Bariamma's room are sarcastically called what?

4. How do the sisters continue to pay for the house's regular needs?

5. For how many days, roughly, does Raza Hyder go without sleep in order to watch over the refugees?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the political atmosphere in Delhi prior to the destruction of Bilquis' father's business?

2. How does Raza Hyder describe his courtship of Bilquis?

3. Of what two cultural parts is the town of Q's dumbbell shape composed?

4. How does Bilquis come to be accepted as a member of the Hyder family?

5. What effect does voyeurism-by-proxy have on Omar's mothers, and what is possibly the consequence of this effect?

6. What characterizes Farah Zoroaster's life in Q after returning from her forced marriage to Eduardo Rodrigues?

7. How is Bilquis' father's business ruined?

8. Why is Raza Hyder's military victory so greatly lauded throughout Pakistan?

9. What characterizes Omar Khayyam Shakil's early educational experiences?

10. What vice does Omar discern in Farah immediately before hypnotizing her, and how?

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