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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of a tongue does Jahanara say she has?
(a) Sly.
(b) Wily.
(c) Barbed.
(d) Forked.

2. What could the architect that was hired by Shah Jahan turn marble into?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Elysium.

3. Where are Jahanara's family on a military campaign during the first few weeks of her marriage?
(a) In the north.
(b) In the east.
(c) In the west.
(d) In the south.

4. What is Jahanara drinking at the beginning of the Narration, in Chapter 2?
(a) Milk.
(b) Coffee
(c) Chai.
(d) Tea.

5. What do Dara and Jahanara eat in the Abode of Love?
(a) Pomegranates.
(b) Mangoes.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Melon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wives did Emperor Jahangir have?

2. A merchant is sentenced to death for using false scales. How old is his son?

3. How old is the boy Jahanara tries to rescue at the river?

4. By what river is the inn where Jahnara stays when she goes east to settle a dispute?

5. What type of a woman does Jahanara say she is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jaha's daughter and husband bring her granddaughters to Agra?

2. Describe the poem Jahanara's father wrote and where it was inscribed.

3. How did Jaha's father meet her mother?

4. How does Jahanara describe the skills of the architect hired to build the monument for Arjumand?

5. Why does Jahanara have to be careful to see Isa only at the site?

6. Why does Jahanara ask Ladli to tell Aurangzeb that Jahanara has stolen a ring from Khondamir?

7. What is Nizam's story?

8. What does Jaha see as her boat is rowed across the Yamuna?

9. What does Dara say when Jahanara tells him that Aurangzeb plans to kill him?

10. Why does Jaha tell the story of her family history to her granddaughters?

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