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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. What does Bilqeece have a nightmare about in Part III?

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

3. What do Asghar's friends do while he waits to be "introduced" to his bride after the ceremony?

4. After the ceremony of seeing the bride's face, what does Asghar have to pay the bride's sisters and cousins to get back?

5. What does Bilqeece's family mix with the hand-washing water that the men of the Nihal family use after the wedding feast?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mehro's life and marriage during this time period.

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

3. What complaints does the narrator make against the grave diggers, cloth merchants, and body washers?

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

5. In Chapter 6, what does Asghar find out has happened to Mirza's son, and how does Asghar react?

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

7. What makes it clear that there is some tension between Asghar's and Bilqeece's families?

8. In Chapter 7, when Bilqeece finally musters the courage to ask Asghar what is wrong, what does he tell her, and how does she react?

9. Explain why it is the changes made to Chandni Chowk that "affected the people more deeply than anything else" (143).

10. Explain why Begam Nihal falls on the stairs and what is done for her afterward.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

The spoiling of sons, especially younger or only sons, is brought up several times in Twilight in Delhi. Write an essay that considers how this spoiling might impact the later adult behavior of the novel's male characters. Offer textual evidence to support your claims.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the narrative voice of Twilight in Delhi. Defend your assertions with evidence from the text.

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