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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part II, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Mehro asks the beggar Gul Bano?
(a) How she prevents herself from falling into despair.
(b) Whether she spent much time with her famous grandfather.
(c) How she has managed to evade the British for so long.
(d) Whether coronations are better under the English than under the Mughals.

2. What word do the older people like Begam Nihal use to refer to the place where they live?
(a) Aryavarta.
(b) Nabhivarsha.
(c) Bharat.
(d) Hindustan.

3. What is the main subject of Part I, Chapter 5?
(a) The typical daily routines of the Nihal household.
(b) The decline of the city of Delhi.
(c) The relationship between Asghar and Bilqeece.
(d) The symbolic importance of Mir Nihal's pigeons.

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

5. 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 trigger her yearning to be with her family so that she will be feeling especially loving toward him.
(d) He wants to make her feel emotionally vulnerable so that she gratefully recalls how much she has always relied on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Begam Waheed tells her mother that Asghar is in love with Bilqeece, what does Begam Nihal accuse Bilqeece's mother of?

2. What does the group of merchants talk about just before the Coronation, in Part II, Chapter 7?

3. As Mir Nihal hurries to Babban Jan's on Friday night, what does he hear both a song and a poem about?

4. What is the organizing strategy of the introduction's opening?

5. What event are workers being forced to work in the extreme heat in preparation for?

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