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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. How old is Jahanara, at the end of Chapter 3?

2. What could the architect that was hired by Shah Jahan turn marble into?

3. What color is Nizam's hair?

4. What is Khondamir's house built from?

5. What do breezes remind Jahanara of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the Karkhanas?

3. What is Nizam's story?

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

5. What responsibilities do Jahanara's brothers have, in Chapter 7?

6. What languages does Jahanara speak?

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

8. How does Aurangzeb plan to kill Dara?

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

10. What enemies does the Empire have in the days after Arjumand's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jahanara uses veiled language to ask her father what she should do about her love for Isa. Discuss what Shah Jahan thinks about the love between Jahanara and Isa.

Essay Topic 2

Various characters have theories for why Aurangzeb is so cruel. Discuss why Aurangzeb is so cruel and what has made him that way.

Essay Topic 3

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

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