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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part II, Chapter 5, what do the friends agree is the missing ingredient in the Jama Masjid prescription?
(a) Faith.
(b) A bitter green herb.
(c) A golden flower.
(d) Heat.

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

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

4. What changes about the weather just before Begam Waheed's departure for Bhopal?
(a) A cooler breeze begins and rain finally blows into Delhi.
(b) There is a storm that floods the roads out of Delhi.
(c) There is a period of unseasonable cold.
(d) The breeze dies and the heat becomes unbearable.

5. After Begam Waheed gives Asghar the good news about his mother deciding he can marry Bilqeece, what advice does she give Asghar?
(a) He should go speak to Begam Shahbaz himself.
(b) He should come back to Bhopal with her.
(c) He should go and make peace with his father.
(d) He should make sure that Bilqeece really wants to marry him.

6. What does Begam Nihal ask her grandson Majeed to do in order to make the dust storm stop?
(a) Put a broom under the leg of a bed.
(b) Scatter grain to feed the crows.
(c) Place an onion under a pillow on the bed.
(d) Tie a bunch of dried chilis in the doorway.

7. During the dust storm, who eavesdrops on Begam Waheed and Begam Nihal's conversation about Asghar?
(a) Dilchain.
(b) Anjum Zamani.
(c) Mehro.
(d) Begam Jamal.

8. Who are the Mughals?
(a) An Afghan dynasty who ruled parts of India for about 16 years during the 1500's.
(b) A dynasty originating in Northern India that ruled for the first half of the 1800's.
(c) A dynasty originating in Southern India that ruled from the 1400's to the early 1600's.
(d) A Turco-Mongolian dynasty who ruled India from the late 1500's to the early 1700's.

9. What is the Jama Masjid?
(a) A marketplace next to a former Mughal palace.
(b) A mosque built by Shah Jahan.
(c) A public square in the center of Delhi.
(d) A military fort taken over by the English.

10. What is Molvi Dulhan dressed like in Part II?
(a) A woman.
(b) An Englishman.
(c) A prince.
(d) An imam.

11. What event are workers being forced to work in the extreme heat in preparation for?
(a) A rumored attack by the Provisional Government of India.
(b) The coronation of George V and his wife, Mary.
(c) The move of the British Raj's capitol to Delhi.
(d) The hosting of a World's Fair in Delhi.

12. 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.

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

14. 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 make her feel emotionally vulnerable so that she gratefully recalls how much she has always relied on him.
(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 remind her of how important her marriage was to her and compare this with his own feelings about marriage.

15. How old is Mir Nihal?
(a) 62.
(b) 69.
(c) 55.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, Chapter 4, who asks Asghar, "When are we going to hear the good news of your marriage?" (20)?

2. What does Ali say caused the British paranoia about Muslim scholars that resulted in their violent suppression of the "Wahabi" conspiracy (xii)?

3. What does Mir Nihal tell his wife will happen if Asghar insists on marrying Bilqeece?

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

5. Why is Mir Nihal hurrying home at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 1?

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