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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 malaria.
(b) She lost a child.
(c) She lost her husband.
(d) She has dysentery.

2. What topic do Olivia and Douglas start to discuss during her growing friendship with the Nawab?
(a) Having children.
(b) Returning to England.
(c) Adopting an Indian child.
(d) Separation.

3. What does the narrator do when she first wonders if the beggar woman she sees in Section 23 is dead?
(a) Watches her for an hour.
(b) Decides it's not her problem and ignores her.
(c) Tells the laundry woman about her.
(d) Immediately runs to her side.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Nawab keep his pianos?

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

3. What is a sadhu?

4. Why is the beggar woman who the narrator brings to the hospital living on the streets?

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

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