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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Part IV Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Ahmed Ali to be unable to return to India?
(a) The partition of India and Pakistan.
(b) His decision to renounce his Indian citizenship.
(c) The outbreak of World War I.
(d) The Indian government's anger over his writings.

2. What political movement from the previous year does Mir Nihal think about at the beginning of Part IV, Chapter 4?
(a) The Young India Congress.
(b) The Salt Satyagraha.
(c) The Indian Independence Movement.
(d) The Home Rule Movement.

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

4. What do Asghar's friends do while he waits to be "introduced" to his bride after the ceremony?
(a) Read poetry they have written for the occasion.
(b) Offer prayers for his happiness with his new wife.
(c) Take turns making up outrageous stories about Asghar.
(d) Sing lewd songs about his wedding night.

5. In what city does the man who wants to marry the Nihals' daughter live?
(a) Delhi.
(b) Calcutta.
(c) Madras.
(d) Bhopal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II, Chapter 5, what do the friends agree is the missing ingredient in the Jama Masjid prescription?

2. What English military loss does Mir Nihal think about at the beginning of Part IV, Chapter 4?

3. To what animal does the narrator compare the city of Delhi in the story's opening pages?

4. What does Mir Nihal think about the new music that he hears in the streets outside his house in Part IV?

5. In the story that Saeed Hasan tells in Part III about the farmer and his daughter, what does the daughter discover?

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