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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7 Section 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry tell the narrator and Mrs. Crawford about his mother in Section 15?
(a) He visits her in Khatm every week.
(b) He wants to visit her but the Nawab won't permit it.
(c) She has dysentery.
(d) She has special visions.

2. Where does the narrator first notice the beggar woman in Section 23?
(a) Outside the house where Olivia used to live.
(b) At the bazaar where she buys her food.
(c) At the place where she takes her clothes.
(d) By the suttee shrine.

3. What does the narrator do when she first wonders if the beggar woman she sees in Section 23 is dead?
(a) Tells the laundry woman about her.
(b) Decides it's not her problem and ignores her.
(c) Immediately runs to her side.
(d) Watches her for an hour.

4. What does Olivia see in the room with the Nawab's pianos?
(a) A painting of herself.
(b) A child-size bicycle.
(c) A painting of his first wife.
(d) Rusting camera equipment.

5. Who does the narrator discover when she investigates the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Chid.
(b) The angry English woman she met at the British bungalow.
(c) Inder Lal.
(d) Ritu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?

2. What does Harry tell the narrator when she asks him for news on Khatm when he visits in Section 16?

3. Who says she came to India to find peace, but only got dysentery?

4. Why is the beggar woman who the narrator brings to the hospital living on the streets?

5. In whose arms does the old beggar woman die?

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