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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. What is ironic about Asghar's characterization of their days in Bhopal as "happy" (35)?
(a) He has repeatedly told Bundoo how unhappy he was in Bhopal.
(b) The two stories he recalls from that time are not really happy ones.
(c) The reader is aware that Asghar is not really capable of happiness.
(d) Begam Waheed argued against him being sent to live with her.

2. What is the "prescription written on the southern gate of the Jama Masjid" a recipe for (88)?
(a) A powerful charm.
(b) Gold.
(c) An antidote to poison.
(d) A "universal elixir."

3. 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.

4. What was the cause of Asghar, Begam Waheed, and Begam Nihal being sent away to live somewhere else when Asghar was a child?
(a) Begam Nihal was mentally unwell.
(b) Mir Nihal could not afford to keep everyone in his house.
(c) Asghar had angered his father.
(d) Begam Waheed had an interest in a boy the family disliked.

5. What does the Part II, Chapter 5 description of Red Beard stress?
(a) His unattractiveness.
(b) His gentleness.
(c) His boisterousness.
(d) His dignity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumor has Mir Nihal heard about Nisar Ahmad?

2. Why does Asghar go to see Mushtari Bai in Chapter 11?

3. What does Mushtari Bai mean when she compares Asghar to "the moon of Eed" (53)?

4. When Begam Waheed tells her mother that Asghar is in love with Bilqeece, what does Begam Nihal accuse Bilqeece's mother of?

5. In Part II, Chapter 4, what thought makes Mir Nihal suddenly feel guilty and stop eating?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Khwaja Ashraf Ali notice about Mir Nihal on Thursday, and why does he react the way he reacts when he learns the cause, on Friday?

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

6. In what way were E. M. Forester and Virginia Woolf involved in the publication of Twilight in India?

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

8. How is Babban Jan's mother affected by her death, and what does Mir Nihal tell the woman about her concerns?

9. When Mir Nihal is at the procession for the Coronation, in Chapter 8, what contrast does he see between the crowd at Jama Masjid in 1857 and the one around him at the procession?

10. Describe the family's celebration of Eed (Eid).

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