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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 10 Section 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Inder Lal's mother do to calm the screaming person in the courtyard the night of March 9th?
(a) Gives the person a ginger and honey tea.
(b) Sings and rocks the person back to sleep.
(c) Slaps the person in the face.
(d) Sprinkles rice and utters incantations.

3. Who decides that Ritu will go on a pilgrimage?
(a) Ritu.
(b) The village women.
(c) Chid.
(d) Inder Lal.

4. What does the narrator say she learns about the house where Olivia and Douglas used to live in the February 16th journal entry?
(a) It houses a post office substation.
(b) It is condemned.
(c) It has been torn down.
(d) It is for sale.

5. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Something she read at the library.
(b) Something in Olivia's letters.
(c) A loud groaning.
(d) A symbol she sees on the outside of the tomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who volunteers to take the narrator to the Nawab's palace in Khatm for the first time?

2. How does Chid's chanting affect the narrator?

3. Why does the narrator start sleeping in the outdoor courtyard with Inder Lal's family?

4. Why does Inder Lal say that he agreed to the treatment that Ritu receives?

5. Who tells the narrator that nothing human is important in India?

(see the answer key)

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