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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Balkhi in prison?

2. How many years before Jahanara's time did Muhammad receive the words of Allah?

3. Who rows Jaha down the Yamuna River, in Part I, Narration?

4. Where does Jahanara go on a barge with Isa and some workers to collect white marble?

5. What type of breezes can make tears bloom within Jahanara?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is allowed into the harem at Red Fort?

2. What languages does Jahanara speak?

3. What is Nizam's story?

4. How does Isa mimic Paradise in his building?

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

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

7. Because of Arjumand's influence, what happens instead of war in the Empire?

8. Why does Jahanara try to warn Dara, at the end of Chapter 3?

9. What does Shah Jahan do after Arjumand dies?

10. Jahanara and Shah Jahan are blindfolded and led to the site of the Taj Mahal. What do they see when their blindfolds are removed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jahanara and Isa have a child together. Discuss why and how Jahanara and Isa are able to have a child together.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why Jahanara feels imprisonment is a curse and how she and her father deal with the curse of imprisonment.

Essay Topic 3

Shah Jahan never loved again after his wife died. Discuss the relationship between Shah Jahan and Arjumand and the depth of their love.

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