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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the woman try to give her brother away?
(a) She can't afford to support him.
(b) She could get money for him.
(c) He makes her look old.
(d) She doesn't like him.

2. In the monk's story, when his chariot is being swarmed, what is the fear in his father's eyes?
(a) Death.
(b) Separation.
(c) Violence.
(d) Falling.

3. How much does the Jain monk's father have to pay for his son to renounce the world?
(a) One million rupees.
(b) 50 rupees.
(c) 62 million rupees.
(d) Two thousand rupees.

4. Why is Nitin amused by the tea estate?
(a) It was so poorly run.
(b) The people were very intelligent.
(c) It looked like a British fantasy of India.
(d) It looked like a fairy tale.

5. What has the poet Kabir offered to Indian religions?
(a) United Hinduism and Islam.
(b) Created Hinduism.
(c) Created an alternative to religion.
(d) Offers a single religious text.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Sahib kill Imrat?

2. The Jain monk observes that although his father gives to charity, he doesn't ______ poverty.

3. What about Rima's marriage distresses Nitin?

4. Where must Nitin submerge the figure?

5. What do the Vano believe is special about Nitin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ashok's father feel about him becoming a monk?

2. Are the father's teachings nonsensical?

3. Why doesn't the narrator go near the caves again in Chapter 3?

4. Why does the Great Sahib kill Imrat?

5. Why does Master Mohan's wife try to sabotage Imrat?

6. What does the narrator believe the purpose or use of the Narmada is?

7. Why does Master Mohan kill himself?

8. What is crucial to Nitin's state of mind (then and now) that we learn through his relationship with Rima?

9. What is Tariq Mia's advice about "destiny" and how does it contradict to what the narrator has been told through the book?

10. Why is Master Mohan's wife so bitter?

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