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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. In Chapter 13, after giving her money to beggars, what does Jahanara wish to buy?

2. What does Aurangzeb lack?

3. Why did Aurangzeb turn cruel?

4. How many loves does Jahanara have during the years her daughter grows up?

5. How many warriors fought inside the Red Fort?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Jahanara feel as if Allah has abandoned her?

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

7. How does Nizam say Jahanara has repaid him?

8. What does Shah Jahan tell Jahanara when she asks why Aurangzeb has became cruel?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how Dara and Aurangzeb view war and fighting.

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 grieved deeply for his wife. Discuss grief and how Shah Jahan grieved for his wife. Did his grief change him?

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