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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: "The Landlord".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name refers to Aftab later in life?
(a) Zainab.
(b) Anjun.
(c) Comrade Maase Revathy.
(d) Arifa.

2. Who was the love of Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's life for whom he traveled to Delhi?
(a) Amrik Singh.
(b) Zainab.
(c) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(d) Abhay Chand.

3. For how long had the narrator of Chapter 7 known the woman who had lived on the second floor of his building?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 50 years.

4. What was the charge that Saddam's father faced when he was arrested?
(a) Cow-slaughter.
(b) Murder.
(c) Robbery.
(d) Theft.

5. Whose death haunted Anjum as she tried to sleep in Chapter 3?
(a) Zainab's death.
(b) Comrade Maase Revathy's death.
(c) Zakir Mian's death.
(d) Arifa's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed's ancestry described?

2. What object belonging to the mother is described as touching the baby's skin in Chapter 6?

3. When the Englishmen returned in Chapter 1 and told Manju that her name actually spoken backwards was not Manju, what did he say her real name was backwards?

4. To what story does the English man compare the story of Laila and Manju in Chapter 1?

5. In the Prologue, the narrator describes the flying foxes as they "drift across the city like smoke" (5). What literary device is used in this sentence?

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