1. When Asghar arrives at Bari's house, what is his friend doing?
(a) Reading a book of poetry.
(b) Flying pigeons.
(c) Kite fighting.
(d) Smoking a hookah.

2. What is significant about the year that Begam Nihal compares the summer's heat to?
(a) It is the year of the Indian Mutiny.
(b) It is the year in which the East India Company established its first trading station.
(c) It is the year of the Mughal overthrow of the Delhi Sultinate.
(d) It is the year of the first meeting of the Indian National Congress.

3. What is ironic about Asghar's characterization of their days in Bhopal as "happy" (35)?
(a) Begam Waheed argued against him being sent to live with her.
(b) The two stories he recalls from that time are not really happy ones.
(c) He has repeatedly told Bundoo how unhappy he was in Bhopal.
(d) The reader is aware that Asghar is not really capable of happiness.

4. Why is Mir Nihal hurrying home at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 1?
(a) He has forgotten to give his pigeons water.
(b) He has heard that Babban Jan has sent a message to his house.
(c) He has heard that Begam Nihal has arranged Asghar's marriage.
(d) He wants to bring some mangoes to his family to make sherbet.

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 influence of Ram Mohan Roy.
(b) The defeat of Shah Alam.
(c) The activism of Shah Waliullah.
(d) The capture of Delhi by Ahmad Shah Abdali.