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

2. What causes Mir Nihal to be so depressed that he does not fly his pigeons one afternoon in Chapter 2?
(a) The heat-related deaths of some of his birds.
(b) His worries over Babban Jan.
(c) The diminishing role he plays in his own household.
(d) His concern over the illness of Begam Jamal and Masroor.

3. What is ironic about Asghar's characterization of their days in Bhopal as "happy" (35)?
(a) The reader is aware that Asghar is not really capable of happiness.
(b) Begam Waheed argued against him being sent to live with her.
(c) He has repeatedly told Bundoo how unhappy he was in Bhopal.
(d) The two stories he recalls from that time are not really happy ones.

4. What is foreshadowed by the epigraph that prefaces Part IV?
(a) Bilqeece's death.
(b) Mir Nihal's decline.
(c) The flu epidemic.
(d) Asghar's relationship with Zohra.

5. Why did Mir Nihal forbid Asghar to study at Aligarh?
(a) Mir Nihal thinks that the curriculum at Aligarh is too difficult for Asghar.
(b) Mir Nihal has heard that Aligarh admits female students.
(c) Mir Nihal thinks that studying at Aligarh will alienate his son from Islam.
(d) Mir Nihal does not have the money for Aligarh's tuition.