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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Part IV Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the adults tell the children causes dust storms?
(a) One of the children has told an elder a lie.
(b) The heat is trying to chase the rain away.
(c) The jinns are getting ready to celebrate a wedding.
(d) The ifrit are rising up from their underground caves.

2. In what year do Part II, Chapters 1-4 take place?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1903.

3. What is the Eed (Eid) referred to in Part II, Chapter 6?
(a) A celebration held to commemorate the birth of Mohammad.
(b) A feast held during the time of the Hajj pilgrimage.
(c) A celebration held at the end of Ramadan.
(d) The Islamic New Year celebration.

4. Which of his family members demonstrates sympathy for the dead pigeons and for Mir Nihal?
(a) Begam Jamal.
(b) Masroor.
(c) Mehro.
(d) Begam Nihal.

5. What historical event begins in the opening of Part III, Chapter 8?
(a) World War II.
(b) The first meeting of the Indian National Congress.
(c) World War I.
(d) Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation campaign

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Begam Nihal ask her grandson Majeed to do in order to make the dust storm stop?

2. What does Asghar tell Begam Waheed he will do if he cannot marry Bilqeece?

3. What does Begam Nihal say is causing the illness in the Nihal household?

4. What does the narrator say prevents the world from being "a barren desert in which no oasis exists" (91)?

5. What are the grave robbers looking for when they start digging up pandemic victims?

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