1.What does Mini do all the time? How do her parents feel about this tendency?

2.Why is Mini frightened of the Cabuliwallah?

3.What does the narrator do when he sees his daughter with the Cabuliwallah's gifts? What does the Cabuliwallah do in return?

4.How does the Cabuliwallah overcome Mini's fears?

5.What is the double meaning of the words "father-in-law's house"?

6.What are Mini's mother's feelings about the Cabuliwallah?

7.Why is Rahmun arrested?

8.How does the situation change the joke the Cabuliwallah and Mini had shared?

9.Who appears on the night of Mini's wedding? In what ways has he changed? How does the narrator recognize him?

10.How does Mini's father feel about Rahmun's arrival?

11.What has Rahmun carried with him all these years? How does this change Mini's father's feelings?

12.What new meaning does Mini and Rahmun's old joke have?

13.What happens as a result of Mini's father giving money to Rahmun? What effect does Mini's father think it has on the festivities?