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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Part III, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the ceremony of seeing the bride's face, what does Asghar have to pay the bride's sisters and cousins to get back?
(a) His ring.
(b) His comb.
(c) His shoe.
(d) His turban.

2. What is Saeed Hasan disappointed in when he comes to visit Asghar's home in Part III?
(a) There is no separate area for women.
(b) The house is too close to Bilqeece's family.
(c) The house is very small.
(d) There is a lot of English furniture.

3. What do the adults tell the children causes dust storms?
(a) One of the children has told an elder a lie.
(b) The heat is trying to chase the rain away.
(c) The jinns are getting ready to celebrate a wedding.
(d) The ifrit are rising up from their underground caves.

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

5. What do Begam Nihal and Begam Waheed decided to do to celebrate Asghar's engagement?
(a) Buy Asghar some charms and amulets.
(b) Donate money to the mosque.
(c) Have a meelad read.
(d) Invite the qawwali singers to the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event are workers being forced to work in the extreme heat in preparation for?

2. What is significant about the year that Begam Nihal compares the summer's heat to?

3. When Asghar arrives at Bari's house, what is his friend doing?

4. What does Bilqeece's family mix with the hand-washing water that the men of the Nihal family use after the wedding feast?

5. When Mir Nihal arrives home at the beginning of the story, what does his wife tell him about their son?

(see the answer key)

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