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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: "The Tenant" (pages 217-268) .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the hospital where Tilo's mother died?
(a) Damavand.
(b) Cochin.
(c) Abadan
(d) Abyek

2. What is the system of delegating peoples into different segregated groups called in India?
(a) The ermad system.
(b) The perdu system.
(c) The caste system.
(d) The gargu system.

3. When did the narrator of Chapter 7 meet the woman who had left his upstairs apartment in Chapter 7?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1982.

4. What does the word "Khwabgah" (23) translate to in English?
(a) "House of Holiness."
(b) "House of Courage."
(c) "House of Dreams."
(d) "House of Disdain."

5. Who is described in Chapter 7 as one of Amrik Singh's most brutal interrogators and was likely responsible for shaving Tilo's head?
(a) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(b) Pinky Sodhi.
(c) Biplab Dasgupta.
(d) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Tilo's husband that she was leaving in Chapter 8?

2. From what point of view is Chapter 8 related?

3. For how long had the narrator of Chapter 7 known the woman who had lived on the second floor of his building?

4. Who is described by the narrator as having brought Anjum a black ram in Chapter 2?

5. Into what type of family was Tilo's mother born?

(see the answer key)

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