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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 what desert does Aurangzeb fight the Rajputs?

2. How did the Sultan of Bijapur die?

3. How many warriors fought inside the Red Fort?

4. How many bulls were slaughtered to celebrate the dressing of some of the minarets with white marble?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why, in Chapter 16, does Dara say that winning matters little?

5. In Chapter 13, when Jahanara goes into Aurangzeb's room, what does she see?

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

7. How does Isa reassure Jahanara that the neighbors will not hear the baby cry?

8. How does Nizam say Jahanara has repaid him?

9. What does Jahanara conclude when she looks around at the beginning of Part 4?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There begins to be a tension in the Empire between Muslims and Hindus. Discuss Muslims and Hindus in the Empire and why there is a conflict between them.

Essay Topic 2

Chapter 3 is titled "Lost Childhood." Discuss why and how Jahanara grows up quickly.

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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