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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 is the title of the play that the narrator and three friends from Pakistan see in London?
(a) Les Miserables.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Danton's Death.
(d) All's Well that Ends Well.

2. For how long is Sufiya Zinobia chained up in the attic?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 20 months.
(d) 2 months.

3. What part of Talvar Ulhaq's body does Sufiya Zinobia bite at the wedding ceremony?
(a) His chest.
(b) His neck.
(c) His arm.
(d) His leg.

4. What is the name of the 16-year-old Londoner of whom the narrator initially conceives?
(a) Anahita Muhammad.
(b) Marie Duhatta.
(c) Ophelia Grey.
(d) Anna Karenina.

5. In what city does Haroun Harappa hijack an aircraft?
(a) Q.
(b) Karachi.
(c) Delhi.
(d) Islamabad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Omar's medical specialty?

2. For what animal is Sufiya Zinobia mistaken?

3. What does Sufiya Zinobia discover in Omar's bed in the morning after Shahbanou sleeps with him?

4. What does Iskander Harappa, while imprisoned, begin to chew in the absence of his cigars?

5. With what phrase does Sufiya Zinobia respond to the bridal advice given to her by her mother on the eve of her wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ethereal conflict besets the mind of Raza Hyder during his presidency?

2. How does Raza Hyder restore the morale of the deflated Pakistani army?

3. Why does Captain Talvar Ulhaq take great risk to steal Naveed Hyder from her arranged marriage to Haroun Harappa?

4. Why, in the opinion of Omar Khayyam Shakil, does Sufiya Zinobia become intensely ill?

5. For what reasons does Arjumand Harappa develop an affection for Haroun Harappa?

6. What change takes place in Iskander Harappa at the age of 40, and why?

7. What becomes of Bilquis in her latter years?

8. What two phrases constitute the motto of Raza's regime?

9. Describe the final disgrace of Naveed Hyder's marriage to Captain Talvar Ulhaq.

10. What is the consequence of Maulana Dawood's quest against the selling and eating of shellfish in Karachi?

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