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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: "The Tenant" (pages 268-317) .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Anjum name the little three-year-old girl she found on the steps of Jama Masjid?
(a) Zainab.
(b) Arifa.
(c) Amrik.
(d) Musa.

2. How is gender applied to Urdu?
(a) Some nouns have genders and others do not.
(b) All animal-based nouns have specific genders.
(c) There is a gender for every noun.
(d) There are no genders for any nouns.

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

4. Into what type of family was Tilo's mother born?
(a) An American Christian family.
(b) An Egyptian Muslim family.
(c) An Armenian Jewish family.
(d) A Syrian Christian family.

5. Who visited to gather some of Tilo's clothing in the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Naga.
(b) Nimmo Gorakhpuri.
(c) Amrik Singh.
(d) Anjun and Saddam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the chair that Tilo was leaning on at her mother's hospital bed?

2. What did Anjum use to sleep on in the cemetery in Chapter 3?

3. Where is the hospital where Tilo's mother died?

4. Whom does the narrator identify as the soldier that is being tortured in the photos in Tilo's apartment?

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

(see the answer key)

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