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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which Nihal family member is said to be everyone's favorite?
2. What was the cause of Asghar, Begam Waheed, and Begam Nihal being sent away to live somewhere else when Asghar was a child?
3. How old is Mir Nihal?
4. In Part II, Chapter 4, what thought makes Mir Nihal suddenly feel guilty and stop eating?
5. What creature does Mir Nihal kill in Part I, Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the family's celebration of Eed (Eid).
2. In what way were E. M. Forester and Virginia Woolf involved in the publication of Twilight in India?
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 criticisms does Mir Nihal make about his son Asghar in Chapter 1?
5. What do Khwaja Ashraf Ali, Mir Nihal, and Hakim Bashir argue about, and what story does Khwaja Ashraf Ali tell to end the argument?
6. At the end of Chapter 6, what ironic contrast does the narrator describe between what is happening in the Nihal house and the music they can hear coming from outside the house?
7. What does Asghar dream about in Chapter 2?
8. Who is Saeed Hasan, and why does he come to visit Begam Nihal?
9. How did Asghar come to be raised in Bhopal?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about inequality in Twilight in Delhi. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze the significance of Asghar's and Mirza's responses to the children tormenting the mentally ill woman in Chapter 4 of Part I; what does this incident show about both of their characters, and how is it linked to later developments in their characterization? Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
The expression "Who can meddle in the affairs of God" is used several times in the text. Find these occurrences and consider their contexts. Then, write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the use of this expression as a motif in Twilight in Delhi. Be sure to defend your ideas with evidence from the text.
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