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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 she will fit in effortlessly.
(b) That she will find the answers she is seeking.
(c) That modern India is an impossible place to live.
(d) That a Westerner won't last for a month.

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

3. What best describes Chid as a houseguest?
(a) Noisy and clumsy.
(b) Helpful and unobtrusive.
(c) Lazy and messy.
(d) Quiet as a mouse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Olivia first tell about her pregnancy?

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

3. When Chid visits the narrator, what does she do with her papers?

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

5. How does the narrator describe Chid?

(see the answer key)

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