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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7 Section 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the beggar woman who the narrator brings to the hospital living on the streets?
(a) Her husband divorced her and kicked her out of the home.
(b) She was evicted by her family after her husband died.
(c) No one knows where she comes from.
(d) She has no remaining relatives.

2. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) A loud groaning.
(b) Something she read at the library.
(c) Something in Olivia's letters.
(d) A symbol she sees on the outside of the tomb.

3. Describe the pianos that the Nawab shows to Olivia.
(a) Both are in disrepair.
(b) One is a baby grand, the other is a child-sized spinnet.
(c) One is black and the other is white.
(d) Both are well-maintained.

4. What is noticeable about the beggar woman that the narrator notices and ends up helping?
(a) She is crippled and sits on a low platform with wheels.
(b) She never speaks; she holds out her hands when hungry.
(c) She is blind and wears a band over her eyes.
(d) She sings throughout the day to earn money from passersby.

5. Who does the narrator discover when she investigates the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Ritu.
(b) Chid.
(c) The angry English woman she met at the British bungalow.
(d) Inder Lal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chid wear?

2. What game do Olivia and Nawab play when he first takes her to the grove?

3. Where does the narrator first notice the beggar woman in Section 23?

4. What is a sadhu?

5. In whose arms does the old beggar woman die?

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