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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 10 Section 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chid do when someone gives him a guava or a banana?
(a) Hoards it near his sleeping mat.
(b) Shares it with the narrator.
(c) Gives profuse thanks and then gives it to a hungry child.
(d) Eats it himself and leaves the peel on the floor.

2. How does the narrator explain her spiritual calling to Inder Lal?
(a) She does not feel any spiritual calling.
(b) She felt called to come to India to pursue a higher calling.
(c) She feels she must find a spiritual calling, or is doomed.
(d) She doesn't understand it, but feels pulled by a higher power.

3. Where does Chid recover from his fever?
(a) In Inder Lal's home.
(b) In the narrator's room.
(c) In the royal tomb.
(d) In the suttee shrine.

4. How does the narrator describe Chid?
(a) He's always hungry for sleep and sex.
(b) He carries an aura of danger.
(c) He's seeking for answers.
(d) He's a bit of calm in a storm of chaos.

5. How are Olivia's visits to the palace affected after she tells the Nawab that she is pregnant?
(a) She visits less often.
(b) She visits more often.
(c) She stops going.
(d) She spends more time with the Begum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Karim and his friends think about the narrator's plans to visit India?

2. What does the narrator receive from Chid in Section 21?

3. When is the first time that Olivia calls the Nawab by his name?

4. Why does the narrator tell Inder Lal that she is in India (other than for Olivia's letters)?

5. How do the townspeople treat Chid?

(see the answer key)

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