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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part I, Chapters 6-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) His father's criticism.
(b) Missing his sister.
(c) His love life.
(d) The heat.

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

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) Mir Nihal could not afford to keep everyone in his house.
(d) Asghar had angered his father.

5. Where does Mir Nihal go on most evenings after dinner in Part I?
(a) To the mosque.
(b) To see his friend Nawab Puttan.
(c) To work for a few more hours.
(d) To visit his mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Asghar tell Begam Waheed he will do if he cannot marry Bilqeece?

2. What does Mir Nihal tell his wife will happen if Asghar insists on marrying Bilqeece?

3. Besides being "piercing," what other quality does the narrator say Mushtari Bai's eyes have (52)?

4. What is the main idea of the epigraph on the book's title page?

5. In Part I, Chapter 4, who asks Asghar, "When are we going to hear the good news of your marriage?" (20)?

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