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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Section 9 | Part 3 Section 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the narrator called in Part 1 Section 4?
(a) Begum.
(b) Nawab.
(c) Sass.
(d) Hirja.

3. What best describes the narrator's morning routine at her room in Satipur?
(a) She awakens to bells and works on her papers.
(b) She works on her papers and doesn't stop to eat until late in the day.
(c) She lights the fire and eats with Inder Lal's family.
(d) She awakens to birds and cooks for Inder Lal.

4. According to the narrator's first journal entry, where does she spend her first night in Bombay?
(a) In a doorway.
(b) With a woman she met on the trip over.
(c) In a missionary hostel.
(d) In a cheap hotel attached to a bar.

5. What does the palace watchman give to the narrator?
(a) The rupees she drops on the way in.
(b) A key.
(c) Mango leaves.
(d) Rock sugar and flower petals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Mrs. Saunders ill when Olivia first meets her?

3. Who gives Olivia's letters to Marcia?

4. Whose father died from a stroke when he was only 15?

5. Who tells the narrator that nothing human is important in India?

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