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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 Mir Nihal do to pass the time while he is stuck in bed following his stroke?

2. When he thinks that Bilqeece is really on the verge of death, what does Asghar feel?

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

4. After Bilqeece asks Asghar to forgive her, what is the last thing she asks of him?

5. What is the "neg" that Asghar has to give his female cousins in Part III (118)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Bilqeece is near death in Chapter 11, who does Asghar send for, and what does this person tell them?

3. Why is Ghafoor somewhat "quiet and subdued" in Chapter 6?

4. Once Asghar and Bilqeece have their own home, what is the routine they settle into?

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

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

7. In what ways are Habibuddin and his son proud of one another?

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

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

10. How does Asghar behave in the months immediately following Bilqeece's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 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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