View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part III, Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Asghar had angered his father.
(c) Begam Waheed had an interest in a boy the family disliked.
(d) Begam Nihal was mentally unwell.

2. What do Begam Nihal and Begam Waheed decided to do to celebrate Asghar's engagement?
(a) Buy Asghar some charms and amulets.
(b) Invite the qawwali singers to the house.
(c) Donate money to the mosque.
(d) Have a meelad read.

3. What does Khwaja Ashraf Ali see in the cage that Nazir is carrying through the Chowk?
(a) The bodies of the pigeons that died of heat.
(b) Rare pigeons that Mir Nihal has bought at the Chowk.
(c) Two of his own pigeons.
(d) Several of Hakim Bashir's Kabuli pigeons.

4. What does Mir Nihal see just before he sees the funeral procession in Part III, Chapter 9?
(a) A dead pigeon.
(b) A stray cat.
(c) A beggar.
(d) A fistfight.

5. What do the adults tell the children causes dust storms?
(a) The jinns are getting ready to celebrate a wedding.
(b) One of the children has told an elder a lie.
(c) The ifrit are rising up from their underground caves.
(d) The heat is trying to chase the rain away.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the dust storm, who eavesdrops on Begam Waheed and Begam Nihal's conversation about Asghar?

2. What is the primary focus of the description in the opening paragraphs of Part III, Chapter 6?

3. When Begam Waheed first arrives and asks her mother why Asghar looks thin and pale, what does her mother tell her is bothering him?

4. Besides being "piercing," what other quality does the narrator say Mushtari Bai's eyes have (52)?

5. What does Begam Waheed do when the palanquin carrying Bilqeece reaches the vestibule of the Nihal house?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 383 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample