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

2. Bundoo's mother tells Asghar that she feels it hardly necessary to observe "purdah" with him. In this context, what does "purdah" refer to?
(a) The customary deference of younger people to their elders.
(b) The customs of welcoming and hospitality.
(c) The rules separating one caste from another.
(d) The rules surrounding the seclusion of women from men.

3. 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) The breeze dies and the heat becomes unbearable.
(c) There is a storm that floods the roads out of Delhi.
(d) There is a period of unseasonable cold.

4. Who are the Mughals?
(a) A dynasty originating in Southern India that ruled from the 1400's to the early 1600's.
(b) A dynasty originating in Northern India that ruled for the first half of the 1800's.
(c) A Turco-Mongolian dynasty who ruled India from the late 1500's to the early 1700's.
(d) An Afghan dynasty who ruled parts of India for about 16 years during the 1500's.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is ironic about Asghar's characterization of their days in Bhopal as "happy" (35)?

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

4. Where does Mir Nihal go on most evenings after dinner in Part I?

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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