Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Asghar's strategy seem to be in bringing up the death of Begam Waheed's husband?
2. What question does Mehro asks the beggar Gul Bano?
3. When Asghar arrives at Bari's house, what is his friend doing?
4. In what city does the man who wants to marry the Nihals' daughter live?
5. What does Asghar tell Begam Waheed he will do if he cannot marry Bilqeece?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the trick Mir Nihal plays on his neighbor with his pigeons.
2. Why did Ahmed Ali write Twilight in Delhi in English?
3. When Mir Nihal is at the procession for the Coronation, in Chapter 8, what contrast does he see between the crowd at Jama Masjid in 1857 and the one around him at the procession?
4. What contrast do Begam Jamal and Begam Nihal make between the processions held by Mughal emperors and their expectations for the procession about to be held by the English?
5. What suggestion does Begam Jamal make to Begam Nihal about Asghar?
6. How does the cat end up getting into Mir Nihal's pigeon loft?
7. At the end of Chapter 6, what ironic contrast does the narrator describe between what is happening in the Nihal house and the music they can hear coming from outside the house?
8. Describe Mir Nihal's Afghan friend, Kambal Shah.
9. What are three reasons that Begam Nihal decides to advocate for Asghar with Mir Nihal?
10. What does Khwaja Ashraf Ali notice about Mir Nihal on Thursday, and why does he react the way he reacts when he learns the cause, on Friday?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The spoiling of sons, especially younger or only sons, is brought up several times in Twilight in Delhi. Write an essay that considers how this spoiling might impact the later adult behavior of the novel's male characters. Offer textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze the significance of Asghar's and Mirza's responses to the children tormenting the mentally ill woman in Chapter 4 of Part I; what does this incident show about both of their characters, and how is it linked to later developments in their characterization? Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the use of the pathetic fallacy in Twilight in Delhi. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
|
This section contains 1,167 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
