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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 Asghar notice about the streets of Delhi?
2. Which of the women performs a dance while dressed like a man, to amuse the other women in Part III?
3. What English military loss does Mir Nihal think about at the beginning of Part IV, Chapter 4?
4. Who is Ahmad Wazir?
5. In the story that Saeed Hasan tells in Part III about the farmer and his daughter, what does the daughter discover?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 6, what does Asghar find out has happened to Mirza's son, and how does Asghar react?
2. Describe the ceremonies in Chapter 1 that are intended to "sweeten" the bride's and groom's mouths.
3. When Bilqeece is near death in Chapter 11, who does Asghar send for, and what does this person tell them?
4. In Chapter 7, what has changed in Asghar's relationship with his wife?
5. What song does Asghar hear at the graveyard, and how does he react?
6. In what ways are Habibuddin and his son proud of one another?
7. Explain why it is the changes made to Chandni Chowk that "affected the people more deeply than anything else" (143).
8. What complaints does the narrator make against the grave diggers, cloth merchants, and body washers?
9. In the beginning of Chapter 4, what is Mir Nihal's attitude toward Delhi and the British occupation?
10. What happens to Habibuddin in Chapter 9?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the death of Habibuddin. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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