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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: "Khwabgah" (pages 62-99) and Chapter 3: "The Nativity".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "la ilaha" (13) translate to in English?
(a) "Allah as God."
(b) "There is no God."
(c) "The love of God."
(d) "Praise Allah."

2. Why did the soldiers save Anjum's life, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Because she was pregnant.
(b) Because she was in disguise.
(c) Because she held them at gunpoint until they fled.
(d) Because they believed it was bad luck to kill a hijra.

3. Who is the self-described sexologist that Mulaqat Ali took his son to see first?
(a) Dr. Ghulum Nabi.
(b) Saddam Hussein.
(c) Musa Yeswi.
(d) Amrik Singh.

4. What word in Chapter 1 refers to an evening of entertainment poetry or concert of Indian classical music?
(a) Mahfil.
(b) Naga.
(c) Arifa.
(d) Yeswi.

5. Who is the Station House Officer that arrested Saddam's father?
(a) Bangalore.
(b) Sehrawat.
(c) California.
(d) Kabul.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Bhopal disaster occur?

2. What did the filmmaker ask Anjum and her friends to recite in Chapter 3?

3. What does the word "Khwabgah" (23) translate to in English?

4. Whose ghosts does the protagonist in Chapter 1 confer with daily?

5. Who was the love of Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's life for whom he traveled to Delhi?

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