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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 10 Section 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chid do when someone gives him a guava or a banana?
(a) Eats it himself and leaves the peel on the floor.
(b) Hoards it near his sleeping mat.
(c) Shares it with the narrator.
(d) Gives profuse thanks and then gives it to a hungry child.

2. When is the first time that Olivia calls the Nawab by his name?
(a) Just before she tells him about her pregnancy.
(b) After he tells her that he is glad she is pregnant.
(c) When they add 3 red ribbons to the shrine.
(d) When they play the piano duet.

3. How does the narrator describe Chid?
(a) He's seeking for answers.
(b) He carries an aura of danger.
(c) He's a bit of calm in a storm of chaos.
(d) He's always hungry for sleep and sex.

4. What does the narrator think about Karim living in India?
(a) She thinks he is too materialistic to live in India.
(b) She thinks he is too sickly to live in India.
(c) She doesn't understand why he doesn't come to India.
(d) She can't imagine him living in India.

5. What do Karim and his friends think about the narrator's plans to visit India?
(a) That modern India is an impossible place to live.
(b) That a Westerner won't last for a month.
(c) That she will fit in effortlessly.
(d) That she will find the answers she is seeking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the townspeople treat Chid?

2. What best describes Chid as a houseguest?

3. Where does Chid recover from his fever?

4. When Chid visits the narrator, what does she do with her papers?

5. How does the narrator explain her spiritual calling to Inder Lal?

(see the answer key)

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