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

2. What does Asghar's strategy seem to be in bringing up the death of Begam Waheed's husband?

3. In the opening paragraphs of Part II, Chapter 7, what aspect of the days before the Coronation is stressed?

4. What point does the narrator make in Part II, Chapter 7 about the living descendants of Bahadur Shah?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the cat end up getting into Mir Nihal's pigeon loft?

2. Who is Saeed Hasan, and why does he come to visit Begam Nihal?

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

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

5. What is the Ghadar of 1857?

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

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

8. Explain the trick Mir Nihal plays on his neighbor with his pigeons.

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you affirm, refute, or qualify the following statement: "Asghar's inability to appreciate his wife until actually faced with losing her parallels the residents' of Delhi's inability to appreciate the importance of their way of life until it is threatened with annihilation." Support your claims with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of Bahadur Shah in Twilight in Delhi. Be sure to offer textual support for your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that analyzes the use of the pathetic fallacy in Twilight in Delhi. Support your claims with evidence from the text.

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