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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 Mrs. Saunders ill when Olivia first meets her?
(a) She has dysentery.
(b) She lost a child.
(c) She has malaria.
(d) She lost her husband.

2. What is the Begum?
(a) The tree outside of Mrs. Saunders' window.
(b) The Indian term for an English woman's gloves.
(c) A traditional Indian game.
(d) The Nawab's mother.

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

4. Where does the narrator first notice the beggar woman in Section 23?
(a) At the place where she takes her clothes.
(b) Outside the house where Olivia used to live.
(c) By the suttee shrine.
(d) At the bazaar where she buys her food.

5. Who says she came to India to find peace, but only got dysentery?
(a) The wife of the major at the Nawab's dinner party.
(b) Beth Crawford.
(c) An English girl the narrator meets at an old bungalow.
(d) Mrs. Saunders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Harry take the berth that Douglas has arranged for him?

2. Who accompanies the narrator to the royal tombs in Section 13?

3. Where does the Nawab keep his pianos?

4. Who does the narrator discover when she investigates the royal tomb on March 30th?

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

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