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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. Why does Mir Nihal not go into work on Saturday after a cat attacked his pigeons?
(a) He is too sad about the pigeons.
(b) He is exhausted and sleeps all day instead.
(c) The shop is closed for the weekend.
(d) He no longer sees a point in working.

2. What does Mir Nihal think of when he is at the procession and sees the Red Fort?
(a) That Shah Jahan was a glorious ruler.
(b) That Delhi was at its greatest during the time of the Delhi Sultanate.
(c) That in a sense, the Mughals were also occupiers.
(d) That the English are desecrating it.

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

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

5. What does the group of merchants talk about just before the Coronation, in Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Their hopes that the prosperity of this time will continue after the Coronation is over.
(b) The higher prices they are able to charge the visiting English.
(c) Their worries about whether their grandchildren will be Muslims or Christians.
(d) Their disgust that the English are building their own capitol outside Delhi.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Mir Nihal go to the Chowk on Friday evening?

3. What hobbies does Mir Nihal pursue in Chapter 5?

4. What is the organizing strategy of the introduction's opening?

5. As Mir Nihal hurries to Babban Jan's on Friday night, what does he hear both a song and a poem about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. When Begam Nihal and Begam Waheed argue about Asghar's marriage in Chapter 7, what does each woman argue would be best for Asghar?

9. What do Khwaja Ashraf Ali, Mir Nihal, and Hakim Bashir argue about, and what story does Khwaja Ashraf Ali tell to end the argument?

10. What is the Ghadar of 1857?

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