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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. To whom does Sheikh Mohammad Sadiq wish to marry his niece?
2. What do Begam Nihal and Begam Waheed decided to do to celebrate Asghar's engagement?
3. What is ironic about Asghar's characterization of their days in Bhopal as "happy" (35)?
4. Why does Mir Nihal not go into work on Saturday after a cat attacked his pigeons?
5. When Begam Waheed first arrives and asks her mother why Asghar looks thin and pale, what does her mother tell her is bothering him?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the cat end up getting into Mir Nihal's pigeon loft?
2. Explain the trick Mir Nihal plays on his neighbor with his pigeons.
3. 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?
4. What idea of Mir Nihal's comes up again when he discusses the marriage of Sheikh Mohammad Sadiq's niece, and how is he distracted from pursuing it?
5. Describe the family's celebration of Eed (Eid).
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 suggestion does Begam Jamal make to Begam Nihal about Asghar?
8. What is the Ghadar of 1857?
9. In what way were E. M. Forester and Virginia Woolf involved in the publication of Twilight in India?
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 in which you compare and contrast the way two traditional aspects of culture are treated in Twilight in Delhi. Support your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the characters of Mir Nihal and his son Asghar. Offer textual details to support your assertions about these two men.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the significance of the epigraphs that open the book itself and each of its four main parts. Use textual evidence to defend your assertions.
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