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

2. When Bilqeece realizes that she is near death, what does she do?
(a) Hallucinates that death is in the room with her.
(b) Asks Begam Shahbaz to take Jehan Ara outside.
(c) Has someone call Asghar into the room.
(d) Begins to pray with a set of prayer beads.

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

4. What item among the bath things sent by Bilqeece's family is unfamiliar to the women in Asghar's family?
(a) The toothbrush.
(b) The soap case.
(c) The tooth brushing powder.
(d) The hairbrush.

5. What does Bilqeece's family mix with the hand-washing water that the men of the Nihal family use after the wedding feast?
(a) Flower petals.
(b) Kerosene.
(c) Dye powder.
(d) Attar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mir Nihal notice about Delhi in the beginning of Part III, Chapter 9?

2. When Begam Jamal tells Begam Shahbaz about Asghar's plan to marry Zohra, what is Begam Shahbaz's reaction?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does a choice made by a servant end up affecting the course of Asghar's future at the end of the novel?

2. How does Bilqeece's upbringing make it difficult for her to return Asghar's passion?

3. What does the narrator say families have to understand about raising daughters?

4. What does the narrator say about prayers and God in the context of the pandemic?

5. Describe what happens to Mir Nihal when he gets home after seeing the funeral procession.

6. What song does Asghar hear at the graveyard, and how does he react?

7. Explain what Mir Nihal's grandchildren do that makes him so angry, and tell how he responds to their misbehavior.

8. What does Asghar believe is the "one thing that kept the heart of man alive," and why does he believe this (182)?

9. What happens with the paste of "herbs and drugs good for the complexion" (119)?

10. Why is Ghafoor somewhat "quiet and subdued" in Chapter 6?

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