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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. What is Mirza the milk-seller's attitude toward the English?
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Obsequious.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Grateful.

2. Who decides to propose to Surayya, the woman that Bagam Nahil originally wanted Asghar to marry?
(a) Bundoo.
(b) Nazrul Hasan.
(c) Saeed Hasan.
(d) Bari.

3. What does Mir Nihal do to pass the time while he is stuck in bed following his stroke?
(a) He traps rats.
(b) He reads.
(c) He writes poetry.
(d) He talks with Ghafoor.

4. In Part IV, Chapter 4, why does Mir Nihal no longer get visits from Kambal Shah?
(a) Kambal Shah is too elderly to leave home.
(b) Kambal Shah has disappeared.
(c) Kambal Shah is in a British prison.
(d) Kambal Shah has died of the flu.

5. Why does Asghar go to see Mushtari Bai in Chapter 11?
(a) He owes Mushtari Bai money.
(b) He wants to ask Mushtair Bai to keep their relationship a secret.
(c) Bari asks Asghar to introduce him to Mushtari Bai.
(d) Bari thinks it will cheer Asghar up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bilqeece make Begam Shahbaz promise her in Part III, Chapter 10?

2. Who has been urging Mir Nihal to retire?

3. Why does Habibuddin argue that they cannot cancel Mehro's wedding?

4. What changes about the weather just before Begam Waheed's departure for Bhopal?

5. What does Begam Nihal ask her grandson Majeed to do in order to make the dust storm stop?

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