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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part III, Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Asghar's strategy seem to be in bringing up the death of Begam Waheed's husband?
(a) He wants to make her feel emotionally vulnerable so that she gratefully recalls how much she has always relied on him.
(b) He wants to trigger her yearning to be with her family so that she will be feeling especially loving toward him.
(c) He wants to remind her of how important her marriage was to her and compare this with his own feelings about marriage.
(d) He wants to flatter his sister for her courage and then elicit her pity because people do not respect him as they respect her.

2. On page 53, what does Mushtari Bai compare herself to?
(a) An "evil-smelling flower."
(b) A "candle which tempts the moths."
(c) A "new flower in bloom."
(d) An "oasis in the desert."

3. While Asghar and Begam Waheed are talking about their childhood, what can Asghar hear in the background?
(a) Qawwals singing.
(b) Pigeons cooing.
(c) His aunts arguing.
(d) Street vendors shouting.

4. What do the adults tell the children causes dust storms?
(a) The jinns are getting ready to celebrate a wedding.
(b) The heat is trying to chase the rain away.
(c) One of the children has told an elder a lie.
(d) The ifrit are rising up from their underground caves.

5. When Jehan Ara is teething and fussy, what does Asghar accuse his wife of?
(a) Neglecting him.
(b) Behaving like a child.
(c) Hurting the child.
(d) Being uneducated.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Part III, Chapter 6 take place?

2. When Begam Waheed tells her mother that Asghar is in love with Bilqeece, what does Begam Nihal accuse Bilqeece's mother of?

3. What does the group of merchants talk about just before the Coronation, in Part II, Chapter 7?

4. What does Mir Nihal see just before he sees the funeral procession in Part III, Chapter 9?

5. Which residents of Delhi are described in the first page and a half of Part II, Chapter 6?

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