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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bilqeece have a nightmare about in Part III?
(a) Seeing the face of death.
(b) Falling into a deep pit.
(c) Jehan Ara having a cruel stepmother.
(d) Asghar divorcing her.

3. From what bird does Kambal Shah suggest an "oil" be made to help Mir Nihal (157)?
(a) Falcoln.
(b) Pelican.
(c) Peacock.
(d) Cuckoo.

4. What work is Begam Nihal engaged in when Asghar comes to speak to her about Zohra in Part IV?
(a) Disentangling thread.
(b) Sorting lentils.
(c) Mending clothing.
(d) Washing dishes.

5. What is thrown into the crowd of guests as soon as the wedding prayers have finished in Part III?
(a) Rice.
(b) Candy.
(c) Coins.
(d) Dates.

6. What government action is the subject of the popular slogan that Asghar sees written in several places?
(a) The declaration of martial law in the Punjab.
(b) The Rowlatt Acts.
(c) The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
(d) The Government of India Act.

7. What does Bilqeece make Begam Shahbaz promise her in Part III, Chapter 10?
(a) To take care of Jehan Ara after her death.
(b) To demand payment from Asghar's family if she should die.
(c) To make sure that Asghar does not remarry after her death.
(d) To stop buying charms to try to prevent her death.

8. What are the grave robbers looking for when they start digging up pandemic victims?
(a) Burial shrouds.
(b) Gold and silver dental fillings.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Jewelry.

9. How long after Bilqeece's death is it when Asghar realizes that he is in love with Zohra?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 11 months.
(c) Just over a year.
(d) A year and a half.

10. In Part IV, Chapter 4, why does Mir Nihal no longer get visits from Kambal Shah?
(a) Kambal Shah has disappeared.
(b) Kambal Shah is too elderly to leave home.
(c) Kambal Shah is in a British prison.
(d) Kambal Shah has died of the flu.

11. How long after his stroke is it before Mir Nihal can speak clearly again?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

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

14. What is Habibuddin referring to when, on his deathbed, he says "It's beautiful, divine" (197)?
(a) God's love.
(b) A rose.
(c) A child.
(d) The afterlife.

15. When he thinks that Bilqeece is really on the verge of death, what does Asghar feel?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Relief.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zohra do when her mother tells her that she must begin observing purdah with Asghar?

2. What is the primary focus of the description in the opening paragraphs of Part III, Chapter 6?

3. Where does Part III, Chapter 6 say that "strange people" begun appearing from, changing the language and culture of Delhi (144)?

4. How does Zohra treat Asghar after she confesses her feelings to him in Part IV?

5. In what year does Part III, Chapter 6 take place?

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