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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5 Section 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes Chid as a houseguest?
(a) Noisy and clumsy.
(b) Helpful and unobtrusive.
(c) Lazy and messy.
(d) Quiet as a mouse.

2. According to the narrator's first journal entry, where does she spend her first night in Bombay?
(a) In a doorway.
(b) In a missionary hostel.
(c) With a woman she met on the trip over.
(d) In a cheap hotel attached to a bar.

3. Why is the person the narrator discovers inside the royal tomb there, in Section 13?
(a) The person is being held prisoner.
(b) The person is hiding.
(c) The person is praying.
(d) The person is sick with fever.

4. What is the narrator called in Part 1 Section 4?
(a) Hirja.
(b) Sass.
(c) Begum.
(d) Nawab.

5. Who is the recipient of Olivia's letters that are in the narrator's possession?
(a) Ritu.
(b) Beth.
(c) Marcia.
(d) Mrs. Saunders.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Baba Firdau's shrine?

2. What best describes the narrator's room when both Chid and Ritu are in it?

3. Who decides that Ritu will go on a pilgrimage?

4. Where is Baba Firdau's shrine?

5. Whose father died from a stroke when he was only 15?

(see the answer key)

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