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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part II, Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Sheikh Mohammad Sadiq wish to marry his niece?
(a) Majeed.
(b) Asghar.
(c) Masroor.
(d) Ghafoor.

2. 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 flatter his sister for her courage and then elicit her pity because people do not respect him as they respect her.
(d) He wants to remind her of how important her marriage was to her and compare this with his own feelings about marriage.

3. What advice does Bari give Asghar about his love life?
(a) He should marry Mushtari Bai.
(b) Loving is not as satisfying as is being loved.
(c) He should buy charms to help him persuade his father.
(d) He should contact his sister in Bhopal for her help.

4. What causes Mir Nihal to be so depressed that he does not fly his pigeons one afternoon in Chapter 2?
(a) His concern over the illness of Begam Jamal and Masroor.
(b) The heat-related deaths of some of his birds.
(c) His worries over Babban Jan.
(d) The diminishing role he plays in his own household.

5. On Saturday morning, what is Mir Nihal's reaction to seeing the cat that attacked his pigeons?
(a) He prays to God to deliver him from his anger.
(b) He considers whether it might be better to keep cats than pigeons.
(c) He curses it and chases it from the roof.
(d) He tries to beat it to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mehro Zamani?

2. When Mir Nihal arrives home at the beginning of the story, what does his wife tell him about their son?

3. What changes about the weather just before Begam Waheed's departure for Bhopal?

4. What does Ali say caused the British paranoia about Muslim scholars that resulted in their violent suppression of the "Wahabi" conspiracy (xii)?

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

(see the answer key)

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