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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 does Jahanara get to Calcutta?
(a) Boat.
(b) Camel.
(c) Horse.
(d) Litter.

2. How many loves does Jahanara have during the years her daughter grows up?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

3. How many bulls were slaughtered to celebrate the dressing of some of the minarets with white marble?
(a) 80.
(b) 20.
(c) 60.
(d) 40.

4. What does Jahanara say there was at first after she saved Aurangzeb?
(a) Magic.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Joy.
(d) Peace.

5. What did Jahanara do when she returned to Agra?
(a) Freed herself.
(b) Freed her father.
(c) Imprisoned herself.
(d) Imprisoned her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city do Jahanara and Ladli agree to meet when Jahanara is free?

2. Where does Nizam have a long ugly scar?

3. In Chapter 13, how many minarets are finished being dressed with white marble?

4. How are the names of God described in the quote at the beginning of Part 4?

5. What fresh meat is brought for Jahanara, Isa, and Arjumand when they are reunited?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jahanara disguise herself when she returns to Jahanara?

2. What illness does Shah Jahan catch during monsoon season?

3. Who is Shivaji?

4. What does Jahanara begin to worry about as and Nizam get closer to where Isa might be?

5. What does Aurangzeb do when a cobra without fangs is placed in his bed?

6. What reason does Jahanara give her granddaughters for going back to Agra?

7. How does Nizam say Jahanara has repaid him?

8. Why does Jahanara tell her granddaughters she didn't allow Aurangzeb to die?

9. How is Jahanara discovered and imprisoned again?

10. As the days of her imprisonment pass, how does Jahanara change?

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