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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many more guards are there guarding Shah Jahan than when Jahanara left?
(a) 2 times as many.
(b) 5 times as many.
(c) 4 times as many
(d) 3 times as many.

2. What color is Dara's helmet and chain mail?
(a) Red and black.
(b) Blue and silver.
(c) Blue and yellow.
(d) Yellow and green.

3. What color does Jahanara dye her hair when she returns to Agra?
(a) Black.
(b) Gray.
(c) Red.
(d) Silver.

4. How long does it take Jahanara and Nizam to reach Allahabad?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 4 days.

5. When Nizam and Jahanara come across a battlefield with rotting corpses, who are most of the dead?
(a) Rajhit.
(b) Men from the Empire.
(c) Persians.
(d) Deccans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What necklace does Ladli wear when she comes to Jahanara's cell with Aurangzeb and Khondamir?

2. When Ladli comes to Jahanara's cell with Aurangzeb and Khondamir, what is painted on her robe?

3. In Chapter 12, how many men does Shah Jahan ask Aurangzeb to take north to deal with the Persians?

4. What message does Jahanara want her granddaughters to take from her story?

5. How many monks die when a Hindu temple is set on fire, in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jahanara tell her granddaughters she didn't allow Aurangzeb to die?

2. What does Jahanara say about the years following her daughter's birth?

3. What does Aurangzeb do when a cobra without fangs is placed in his bed?

4. How does Isa reassure Jahanara that the neighbors will not hear the baby cry?

5. As the days of her imprisonment pass, how does Jahanara change?

6. What does Shah Jahan tell Aurangzeb about enemies?

7. How does Jahanara survive being locked in a cell with two hungry cheetahs?

8. Why doesn't Jahanara envy her granddaughters for their youth?

9. What does Shah Jahan tell Jahanara when she asks why Aurangzeb has became cruel?

10. Why doesn't Jahanara wipe the blood from her face when Aurangzeb backhands her?

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