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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. Who has been urging Mir Nihal to retire?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mistress.
(c) His sons.
(d) His doctor.

2. What is Mirza the milk-seller's attitude toward the English?
(a) Obsequious.
(b) Grateful.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Suspicious.

3. Who is the poet who wrote the words to the song that Gul Bano sings?
(a) Ghalib.
(b) Bahadur Shah.
(c) Mir Babar Ali Anis.
(d) Mir Taqi Mir.

4. What causes Mir Nihal to be so depressed that he does not fly his pigeons one afternoon in Chapter 2?
(a) The heat-related deaths of some of his birds.
(b) The diminishing role he plays in his own household.
(c) His worries over Babban Jan.
(d) His concern over the illness of Begam Jamal and Masroor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the abolition of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic from Indian schools?

2. What does Mir Sangi claim his cousin accidentally succeeded in making silver from?

3. When Asghar arrives at Bari's house, what is his friend doing?

4. What is the main idea of the epigraph on the book's title page?

5. To what does the narrator compare the streets and alleys of Delhi?

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