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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part III, Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Asghar's strategy seem to be in bringing up the death of Begam Waheed's husband?
(a) He wants to make her feel emotionally vulnerable so that she gratefully recalls how much she has always relied on him.
(b) He wants to trigger her yearning to be with her family so that she will be feeling especially loving toward him.
(c) He wants to flatter his sister for her courage and then elicit her pity because people do not respect him as they respect her.
(d) He wants to remind her of how important her marriage was to her and compare this with his own feelings about marriage.

2. In Part II, Chapter 5, what do the friends agree is the missing ingredient in the Jama Masjid prescription?
(a) Faith.
(b) Heat.
(c) A bitter green herb.
(d) A golden flower.

3. Why does Asghar go to see Mushtari Bai in Chapter 11?
(a) He wants to ask Mushtair Bai to keep their relationship a secret.
(b) Bari thinks it will cheer Asghar up.
(c) He owes Mushtari Bai money.
(d) Bari asks Asghar to introduce him to Mushtari Bai.

4. While Asghar and Begam Waheed are talking about their childhood, what can Asghar hear in the background?
(a) Pigeons cooing.
(b) Street vendors shouting.
(c) His aunts arguing.
(d) Qawwals singing.

5. When Jehan Ara is teething and fussy, what does Asghar accuse his wife of?
(a) Behaving like a child.
(b) Being uneducated.
(c) Hurting the child.
(d) Neglecting him.

Short Answer Questions

1. After several months following his stroke, what is Mir Nihal able to do by himself?

2. What does Mushtari Bai mean when she compares Asghar to "the moon of Eed" (53)?

3. What does Begam Nihal ask her grandson Majeed to do in order to make the dust storm stop?

4. What does the narrator say prevents the world from being "a barren desert in which no oasis exists" (91)?

5. What is the primary focus of the description in the opening paragraphs of Part III, Chapter 6?

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