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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. How much of the Qur'an does Jahanara recite as she heals from the beating in her room?
(a) 1/5.
(b) 1/8.
(c) 1/30.
(d) 1/10.

2. What does Aurangzeb eat as he awaits the execution of a merchant who falsified his scales?
(a) Garlic.
(b) Melon.
(c) Onion.
(d) Grapes.

3. What does Jahanara tell Ladli to report that Jahanara has stolen from Khondamir?
(a) Gold coins.
(b) Silver ring.
(c) Silver coins.
(d) Gold ring.

4. Who rows Jaha down the Yamuna River, in Part I, Narration?
(a) Jahan.
(b) Gulbadan.
(c) Ruayya.
(d) Nizam.

5. What color are the words of a poem inscribed on the ceiling above the Peacock Throne?
(a) Gold.
(b) Blue paint.
(c) Red paint.
(d) Silver.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older is Nizam than Jahanara?

2. What is the predominant color in Agra?

3. Where does the quote come from, at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. Where does the jade come from to make some of the flowers that adorn the walls of a room in the Taj Mahal?

5. How does Gulbadan say most people feel about the Emperor Alamgir?

Short Essay Questions

1. What languages does Jahanara speak?

2. Why does Shah Jahan have to wear spectacles for the rest of his life?

3. Who is Khondamir and why is he chosen to marry Jahanara?

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

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

6. What does Shah Jahan do after Arjumand dies?

7. What wares do artisans sell at Chandi Chowk?

8. What happens during a qamargah?

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

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

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