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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the discussion of alchemy, what does Kambal Shah say would happen if everyone had equal wealth?
(a) People would have the leisure to draw closer to God.
(b) People would become vain and forget God.
(c) People would find another kind of hierarchy to follow.
(d) People would learn to love one another more sincerely.

2. What caused Ahmed Ali to be unable to return to India?
(a) His decision to renounce his Indian citizenship.
(b) The Indian government's anger over his writings.
(c) The outbreak of World War I.
(d) The partition of India and Pakistan.

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

4. Who is Nisar Ahmad?
(a) A former lover of Babban Jan's.
(b) Mir Nihal's partner in the lace business.
(c) The muezzin at Mir Nihal's mosque.
(d) Mir Nihal's son-in-law.

5. What rumor has Mir Nihal heard about Nisar Ahmad?
(a) He uses powerful charms to acquire customers.
(b) He has rare dappled pigeons for sale.
(c) He sells impure ghee in his business.
(d) He has a Farangi girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II, Chapter 5, what do the friends agree is the missing ingredient in the Jama Masjid prescription?

2. What happy news do the Nihals receive in Part I, Chapter 5?

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

4. What does the group of merchants talk about just before the Coronation, in Part II, Chapter 7?

5. What question does Mehro asks the beggar Gul Bano?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mir Nihal's Afghan friend, Kambal Shah.

2. What is Begam Jamal's motive for promoting the marriage of Asghar and Bilqeece?

3. What contrast do Begam Jamal and Begam Nihal make between the processions held by Mughal emperors and their expectations for the procession about to be held by the English?

4. What suggestion does Begam Jamal make to Begam Nihal about Asghar?

5. What does the reader learn in Chapter 3 about Mir Nihal's real reason for working at the lace shop, and how does this shed light on his feelings about his family?

6. What does Kambal Shah say caused the loss of the Mugal Empire?

7. Why did Ahmed Ali write Twilight in Delhi in English?

8. What criticisms does Mir Nihal make about his son Asghar in Chapter 1?

9. Who is Hameed, and what light does Asghar think Hameed's situation throws on his own?

10. What does Mir Nihal find happening when he returns home at the beginning of Chapter 2, and what finally causes him to become angry?

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