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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 Mir Nihal go to the Chowk on Friday evening?
2. When Begam Waheed first arrives and asks her mother why Asghar looks thin and pale, what does her mother tell her is bothering him?
3. Who is Mehro Zamani?
4. What is the organizing strategy of the introduction's opening?
5. During the dust storm, who eavesdrops on Begam Waheed and Begam Nihal's conversation about Asghar?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Begam Nihal and Begam Waheed argue about Asghar's marriage in Chapter 7, what does each woman argue would be best for Asghar?
2. What did the ironsmith teach Mir Nihal to find, and how did he teach him to find it?
3. How did Asghar come to be raised in Bhopal?
4. In what way were E. M. Forester and Virginia Woolf involved in the publication of Twilight in India?
5. 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?
6. What is the Ghadar of 1857?
7. Describe Mir Nihal's Afghan friend, Kambal Shah.
8. 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?
9. What suggestion does Begam Jamal make to Begam Nihal about Asghar?
10. What is Begam Nihal's objection to Bilqeece's family?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The life outcomes of the Nihal children--Asghar, Mehro, Begam Waheed, Habibuddin, and Kabiruddin--vary significantly from one another. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the happiness of the adult lives of these five people, making clear the significance of their relative levels of happiness. Offer textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the symbolic significance of pigeons in Twilight in Delhi. Be sure to offer evidence of their use throughout the text and not simply in the early chapters where Mir Nihal keeps them as a hobby. If you use outside sources to research their significance in Islamic culture, cite these in MLA format.
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