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

2. After Begam Waheed gives Asghar the good news about his mother deciding he can marry Bilqeece, what advice does she give Asghar?
(a) He should go and make peace with his father.
(b) He should come back to Bhopal with her.
(c) He should make sure that Bilqeece really wants to marry him.
(d) He should go speak to Begam Shahbaz himself.

3. What does Begam Nihal ask her grandson Majeed to do in order to make the dust storm stop?
(a) Put a broom under the leg of a bed.
(b) Scatter grain to feed the crows.
(c) Place an onion under a pillow on the bed.
(d) Tie a bunch of dried chilis in the doorway.

4. What does Mir Sangi claim his cousin accidentally succeeded in making silver from?
(a) Water.
(b) Sand.
(c) Tin.
(d) Iron.

5. What was the cause of Asghar, Begam Waheed, and Begam Nihal being sent away to live somewhere else when Asghar was a child?
(a) Mir Nihal could not afford to keep everyone in his house.
(b) Begam Waheed had an interest in a boy the family disliked.
(c) Asghar had angered his father.
(d) Begam Nihal was mentally unwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides their money, what does Begam Nihal like about Meraj's family?

2. What news does Shams bring two days before the Coronation?

3. What does Asghar tell Begam Waheed he will do if he cannot marry Bilqeece?

4. What quality does the narrator claim is "peculiar to Delhi-ites alone of all the peoples of India" (99)?

5. What does Bilqeece have a nightmare about in Part III?

(see the answer key)

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