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

2. What was the cause of Asghar, Begam Waheed, and Begam Nihal being sent away to live somewhere else when Asghar was a child?
(a) Mir Nihal could not afford to keep everyone in his house.
(b) Begam Waheed had an interest in a boy the family disliked.
(c) Begam Nihal was mentally unwell.
(d) Asghar had angered his father.

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

4. In Part I, Chapter 3, what does the narrator point out there are "ever so many" of, "young ones and old ones" (14)?
(a) Imams.
(b) Beggars.
(c) Muezzins.
(d) Vendors.

5. What does Ali say caused the British paranoia about Muslim scholars that resulted in their violent suppression of the "Wahabi" conspiracy (xii)?
(a) The activism of Shah Waliullah.
(b) The defeat of Shah Alam.
(c) The influence of Ram Mohan Roy.
(d) The capture of Delhi by Ahmad Shah Abdali.