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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part I, Chapters 6-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused the abolition of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic from Indian schools?
(a) The British attempt to anglicize Indians.
(b) The defeat of an attempted Afghan invasion of India.
(c) The intervention of the Catholic Church.
(d) The elevation of Warren Hastings to Governor.

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

3. What do Begam Nihal and Begam Waheed decided to do to celebrate Asghar's engagement?
(a) Invite the qawwali singers to the house.
(b) Have a meelad read.
(c) Donate money to the mosque.
(d) Buy Asghar some charms and amulets.

4. By what year does the Introduction say the British East India Company had established control of India?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1757.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1835.

5. To what animal does the narrator compare the city of Delhi in the story's opening pages?
(a) A beaten dog.
(b) An overburdened donkey.
(c) An elderly bull.
(d) A starving tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creature does Mir Nihal kill in Part I, Chapter 1?

2. While Asghar and Begam Waheed are talking about their childhood, what can Asghar hear in the background?

3. In what city does the man who wants to marry the Nihals' daughter live?

4. What was the cause of Asghar, Begam Waheed, and Begam Nihal being sent away to live somewhere else when Asghar was a child?

5. What is ironic about Asghar's characterization of their days in Bhopal as "happy" (35)?

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