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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. Why does Asghar go to see Mushtari Bai in Chapter 11?
(a) Bari asks Asghar to introduce him to Mushtari Bai.
(b) He wants to ask Mushtair Bai to keep their relationship a secret.
(c) He owes Mushtari Bai money.
(d) Bari thinks it will cheer Asghar up.

2. What happy news do the Nihals receive in Part I, Chapter 5?
(a) Their son has finally chosen someone to marry.
(b) Begum Waheed is coming to visit them.
(c) Mir Nihal's lace business has turned a record profit.
(d) A wealthy man has proposed to their youngest daughter.

3. What does the narrator say prevents the world from being "a barren desert in which no oasis exists" (91)?
(a) Charity.
(b) Faith.
(c) Hope.
(d) Love.

4. To what does the narrator compare the streets and alleys of Delhi?
(a) The Sphinx's riddle.
(b) A game of chess.
(c) An algebraic equation.
(d) The Minotaur's maze.

5. What changes about the weather just before Begam Waheed's departure for Bhopal?
(a) There is a period of unseasonable cold.
(b) A cooler breeze begins and rain finally blows into Delhi.
(c) The breeze dies and the heat becomes unbearable.
(d) There is a storm that floods the roads out of Delhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Begam Nihal tells her husband that he can buy more pigeons to replace those that have died, how does he react?

2. What does Bari tell Mushtari Bai she should do for him and Asghar?

3. What is the Eed (Eid) referred to in Part II, Chapter 6?

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

5. What causes Mir Nihal to be so depressed that he does not fly his pigeons one afternoon in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Begam Jamal's motive for promoting the marriage of Asghar and Bilqeece?

2. What is Begam Nihal's objection to Bilqeece's family?

3. What does the reader learn in Chapter 3 about Mir Nihal's real reason for working at the lace shop, and how does this shed light on his feelings about his family?

4. How did Asghar come to be raised in Bhopal?

5. How does the cat end up getting into Mir Nihal's pigeon loft?

6. Explain the trick Mir Nihal plays on his neighbor with his pigeons.

7. In what way were E. M. Forester and Virginia Woolf involved in the publication of Twilight in India?

8. Describe Mir Nihal's Afghan friend, Kambal Shah.

9. What did the ironsmith teach Mir Nihal to find, and how did he teach him to find it?

10. What does Mir Nihal find happening when he returns home at the beginning of Chapter 2, and what finally causes him to become angry?

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