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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 does Asghar's strategy seem to be in bringing up the death of Begam Waheed's husband?
(a) He wants to flatter his sister for her courage and then elicit her pity because people do not respect him as they respect her.
(b) He wants to remind her of how important her marriage was to her and compare this with his own feelings about marriage.
(c) He wants to make her feel emotionally vulnerable so that she gratefully recalls how much she has always relied on him.
(d) He wants to trigger her yearning to be with her family so that she will be feeling especially loving toward him.

2. What does Mir Nihal tell his wife will happen if Asghar insists on marrying Bilqeece?
(a) He will divorce Begam Nihal.
(b) He will kill Asghar.
(c) He will cut off financial support to Begam Nihal.
(d) He will disown Asghar.

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

4. During the dust storm, who eavesdrops on Begam Waheed and Begam Nihal's conversation about Asghar?
(a) Mehro.
(b) Dilchain.
(c) Begam Jamal.
(d) Anjum Zamani.

5. When Mir Nihal arrives home at the beginning of the story, what does his wife tell him about their son?
(a) He should get a job soon.
(b) He was seen in the company of a dancing girl.
(c) He should get married soon.
(d) He is spending time with a family she dislikes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the introduction's title indicate the purpose of the introduction is?

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

3. In Part I, Chapter 3, what does the narrator point out there are "ever so many" of, "young ones and old ones" (14)?

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

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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