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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After several months following his stroke, what is Mir Nihal able to do by himself?
(a) Sit up in bed.
(b) Eat and drink.
(c) Walk outside.
(d) Go up the stairs.

2. What does Zohra do when her mother tells her that she must begin observing purdah with Asghar?
(a) Appeals her mother's decision to her father.
(b) Obeys her mother.
(c) Goes to see him secretly.
(d) Runs away.

3. What is Bilqeece's little sister's name?
(a) Jehan.
(b) Kavita.
(c) Zohra.
(d) Abha.

4. Who is Ahmad Wazir?
(a) A local beggar.
(b) A cleric from the family's mosque.
(c) Bilqeece's uncle.
(d) The family barber.

5. Which of the women performs a dance while dressed like a man, to amuse the other women in Part III?
(a) Begam Jamal.
(b) Dilchain.
(c) Mehro.
(d) Begam Waheed.

6. 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 decay and decline of Delhi.
(c) The anger Indians feel about New Delhi.
(d) The changes the English are making in Delhi.

7. What is put into Bilqeece's palm for Asghar to try to eat during the wedding ceremony?
(a) Cheese curds.
(b) Green mango.
(c) Rice pudding.
(d) Milk-soaked bread.

8. What additional insult to the dead often occurs after grave robbers dig up their corpses?
(a) Thieves steal and ransom the bodies.
(b) They are moved into mass burial sites.
(c) Scavenger animals eat from their bodies.
(d) They are sold to medical schools.

9. After Bilqeece asks Asghar to forgive her, what is the last thing she asks of him?
(a) To remember her goodness, not her faults.
(b) To visit her grave each day.
(c) To marry again someday.
(d) To take care of Jehan Ara.

10. When Jehan Ara is teething and fussy, what does Asghar accuse his wife of?
(a) Neglecting him.
(b) Being uneducated.
(c) Behaving like a child.
(d) Hurting the child.

11. Who is Blind Hafizji?
(a) One of the Hakims who treat Habibuddin.
(b) The husband of Hunchbacked Aunt.
(c) Begam Shahbaz's nearest living male relative.
(d) An itinerant faqir staying for a few days at the Nihal house.

12. Why does Habibuddin come home to the Nihal house in Part IV, Chapter 7?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He wants to see his sons.
(c) He wants to get the place into better shape for his parents.
(d) He knows that his father is ill.

13. How old is Zohra in Part IV, Chapter 5?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Nineteen.

14. Why does the narrator call Hindu's "lucky" during the pandemic (169)?
(a) They have greater access to medicine and doctors.
(b) They do not need to bury their dead.
(c) They are mostly spared from the disease.
(d) So many of them have already died in the war.

15. What does Mir Nihal think about the new music that he hears in the streets outside his house in Part IV?
(a) It does not offer God the appropriate gratitude.
(b) It is inappropriate for women to be singing in the streets.
(c) The melodies are clearly influenced by the West.
(d) The words are vulgar and sentimental.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter 1, what are the women busy working on?

2. What does Mir Nihal do to pass the time while he is stuck in bed following his stroke?

3. In the book's final line, what is night said to cover up "in its blanket of darkness and gloom" (200)?

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

5. In Part III, Chapter 5, who gets Asghar a job?

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