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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part II, Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the dust storm, who eavesdrops on Begam Waheed and Begam Nihal's conversation about Asghar?
(a) Anjum Zamani.
(b) Mehro.
(c) Begam Jamal.
(d) Dilchain.

2. In Part I, Chapter 4, who asks Asghar, "When are we going to hear the good news of your marriage?" (20)?
(a) Bundoo.
(b) His sister-in-law.
(c) Mir Nihal.
(d) Bilqeece.

3. When Begam Waheed first arrives and asks her mother why Asghar looks thin and pale, what does her mother tell her is bothering him?
(a) The heat.
(b) Missing his sister.
(c) His love life.
(d) His father's criticism.

4. What is the main subject of Part I, Chapter 5?
(a) The typical daily routines of the Nihal household.
(b) The symbolic importance of Mir Nihal's pigeons.
(c) The relationship between Asghar and Bilqeece.
(d) The decline of the city of Delhi.

5. 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 speak to Begam Shahbaz himself.
(b) He should go and make peace with his father.
(c) He should come back to Bhopal with her.
(d) He should make sure that Bilqeece really wants to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 53, what does Mushtari Bai compare herself to?

2. On Saturday morning, what is Mir Nihal's reaction to seeing the cat that attacked his pigeons?

3. What was the cause of Asghar, Begam Waheed, and Begam Nihal being sent away to live somewhere else when Asghar was a child?

4. To what animal does the narrator compare the city of Delhi in the story's opening pages?

5. What does Ali say caused the British paranoia about Muslim scholars that resulted in their violent suppression of the "Wahabi" conspiracy (xii)?

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