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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 do Karim and his friends think about the narrator's plans to visit India?
(a) That a Westerner won't last for a month.
(b) That she will find the answers she is seeking.
(c) That modern India is an impossible place to live.
(d) That she will fit in effortlessly.

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

3. When does she tell Douglas that she is pregnant?
(a) Just before he leaves for a month long trip.
(b) On the same day she tells the Nawab.
(c) After they fight about routine household matters.
(d) As they are going to a dinner at the Nawab's.

4. Who does Olivia first tell about her pregnancy?
(a) Harry.
(b) The Begum.
(c) Douglas.
(d) The Nawab.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator explain her spiritual calling to Inder Lal?

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

3. Who does the Nawab have a meeting with on the day that Olivia tells him that she is pregnant?

4. What does the narrator think about Karim living in India?

5. How do the townspeople treat Chid?

(see the answer key)

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