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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens regarding the rumor of Adela and Fielding?

2. Which of the following statements is correct?

3. To what does Mrs. Moore attribute her spiritual crisis?

4. Who tries to blackmail Adela Quested?

5. Aziz wants to get away from __________ after the trial.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the actual scandal in Chandrapore?

2. How does Adela Quested justify her original accusation against Dr. Aziz?

3. How do Adela Quested and Cyril Fielding part when Adela returns to England?

4. Describe Dr. Aziz's conviction about Adela Quested regarding her wedding plans.

5. Why is Dr. Aziz released?

6. What does Dr. Aziz do when he gets to the guest house?

7. What do the postcards that Cyril Fielding writes to his Indian friends signify?

8. Describe the sitting arrangements in the courtroom.

9. What does Dr. Aziz discover about Cyril Fielding's marital status in Part 3, Chapter 35?

10. What happens on the roof of Mr. Zulfiqar's mansion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fielding is an educator in the book. What role does education play in the society of The Passage to India? Which characters welcome and which resist education?

Essay Topic 2

Aziz shows Fielding a photograph of his wife, going against the Muslim tradition of "purdah" in which a woman cannot show her face to men outside of her family. Why does Aziz choose to show Fielding this picture? How is this significant?

Essay Topic 3

One conflict that Forster has set up is between religions. Aziz is Muslim and does not understand or feel comfortable with either Hindu or Christian. However, he does admire Professor Godbole, who, although he is of a superior caste and would be expected to look down on everyone else, is kind and friendly. What other examples of religious conflict contribute to the feeling of the novel? How do these religious conflicts compare to other conflicts in the novel?

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