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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Part IV Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part III, what are the residents of Delhi afraid will happen once New Delhi is completed?
(a) Old Delhi will be neglected and fall into ruin.
(b) There will be no way to remove the English from power.
(c) The English will banish Muslim residents again.
(d) The city will become too expensive to live in.

2. Who has been urging Mir Nihal to retire?
(a) His doctor.
(b) His wife.
(c) His sons.
(d) His mistress.

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

4. What changes about the weather just before Begam Waheed's departure for Bhopal?
(a) A cooler breeze begins and rain finally blows into Delhi.
(b) There is a storm that floods the roads out of Delhi.
(c) There is a period of unseasonable cold.
(d) The breeze dies and the heat becomes unbearable.

5. Why does the narrator call Hindu's "lucky" during the pandemic (169)?
(a) They are mostly spared from the disease.
(b) They do not need to bury their dead.
(c) They have greater access to medicine and doctors.
(d) So many of them have already died in the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bari tell Mushtari Bai she should do for him and Asghar?

2. What causes Mir Nihal to be so depressed that he does not fly his pigeons one afternoon in Chapter 2?

3. How old is Mir Nihal?

4. What is the "neg" that Asghar has to give his female cousins in Part III (118)?

5. Bundoo's mother tells Asghar that she feels it hardly necessary to observe "purdah" with him. In this context, what does "purdah" refer to?

(see the answer key)

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