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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. While Asghar and Begam Waheed are talking about their childhood, what can Asghar hear in the background?
(a) Qawwals singing.
(b) His aunts arguing.
(c) Pigeons cooing.
(d) Street vendors shouting.

2. After Begam Waheed gives Asghar the good news about his mother deciding he can marry Bilqeece, what advice does she give Asghar?
(a) He should go and make peace with his father.
(b) He should make sure that Bilqeece really wants to marry him.
(c) He should go speak to Begam Shahbaz himself.
(d) He should come back to Bhopal with her.

3. To what does the narrator compare the streets and alleys of Delhi?
(a) A game of chess.
(b) The Minotaur's maze.
(c) The Sphinx's riddle.
(d) An algebraic equation.

4. What does Mushtari Bai mean when she compares Asghar to "the moon of Eed" (53)?
(a) She feels betrayed by the way Asghar has treated her.
(b) She suspects that Asghar has fallen in love with someone else.
(c) She knows that Asghar does not really love her.
(d) She gets frustrated waiting to see Asghar.

5. What does the introduction's title indicate the purpose of the introduction is?
(a) To make a claim for the essentially Muslim nature of Delhi.
(b) To offer insight into the historical circumstances that led to British rule in India.
(c) To expose the barbarism with which the British ruled India.
(d) To explain why the author wrote Twilight in Delhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creature does Mir Nihal kill in Part I, Chapter 1?

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?

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

4. Besides their money, what does Begam Nihal like about Meraj's family?

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

(see the answer key)

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