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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 10 Section 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Immediately runs to her side.
(c) Decides it's not her problem and ignores her.
(d) Tells the laundry woman about her.

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

3. Why does Inder Lal say that he agreed to the treatment that Ritu receives?
(a) The person recommending it healed with this treatment.
(b) He meditated on the problem and believes this is the best course of action.
(c) It is good for her soul.
(d) Nothing else has worked.

4. Whose father died from a stroke when he was only 15?
(a) Mr. Saunders.
(b) Mr. Crawford.
(c) The Nawab.
(d) Douglas.

5. What does Olivia see in the room with the Nawab's pianos?
(a) A painting of his first wife.
(b) Rusting camera equipment.
(c) A painting of herself.
(d) A child-size bicycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say that Douglas's only son grows up?

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

3. Who becomes Douglas's second wife?

4. What does Inder Lal's mother do to calm the screaming person in the courtyard the night of March 9th?

5. Why is the person the narrator discovers inside the royal tomb there, in Section 13?

(see the answer key)

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