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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8: Part IV Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does Bari give Asghar about his love life?
(a) He should buy charms to help him persuade his father.
(b) He should contact his sister in Bhopal for her help.
(c) Loving is not as satisfying as is being loved.
(d) He should marry Mushtari Bai.

2. What news does Shams bring two days before the Coronation?
(a) The British will hold a feast for their Indian subjects.
(b) The pavilion has been burnt down.
(c) The new King will make a speech.
(d) A British soldier has been killed.

3. How does Asghar get to Bilqeece's home on the day of his wedding?
(a) In a carriage.
(b) On horseback.
(c) In a palanquin.
(d) On the shoulders of his male relatives.

4. What is the primary focus of the description in the opening paragraphs of Part III, Chapter 6?
(a) The growing violence of resistance against the English.
(b) The anger Indians feel about New Delhi.
(c) The changes the English are making in Delhi.
(d) The decay and decline of Delhi.

5. Why does Habibuddin argue that they cannot cancel Mehro's wedding?
(a) They have spent a lot of money on the preparations.
(b) The groom's family will take some kind of revenge on them.
(c) It will shame their family.
(d) Mehro herself has not asked them to.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Begam Nihal tells her husband that he can buy more pigeons to replace those that have died, how does he react?

3. What is the "prescription written on the southern gate of the Jama Masjid" a recipe for (88)?

4. Who has been urging Mir Nihal to retire?

5. In Part IV, what do Mir Nihal and Begam Nihal have in common at this stage in their lives?

(see the answer key)

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