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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. What does Ladli bring Jahanara when she is imprisoned in a cell?

2. What does Nizam say Jahanara was called by the servants when she was a young girl?

3. What fruit is brought to the cell after Jahanara is imprisoned again?

4. Who does Arjumand marry?

5. What analogy does Jahanara use to describe the inevitability of seeing Aurangzeb when she returns to Agra?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shah Jahan want Jahanara to promise him before he dies?

2. Why, as Jahanara's daughter grows older, does Jahanara spend fewer nights with Isa?

3. How does Aurangzeb respond when Jahanara saves him from the snake?

4. Why doesn't Jahanara envy her granddaughters for their youth?

5. How is Jahanara discovered and imprisoned again?

6. Why did Jahanara always try to show her father that she was worthy of his love?

7. What does Jahanara say about the years following her daughter's birth?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jahanara's family is Muslim. Discuss what the Muslim faith means to Jahanara and to various members of her family.

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

Throughout the novel, Ladli sacrifices much to help Jahanara. Discuss how Ladli is able to help Jahanara and the sacrifices Ladli makes to do so.

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