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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Section 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who awakens the narrator by screaming in the courtyard on March 9th?
(a) Ritu.
(b) A young girl she has never seen before.
(c) Inder Lal's youngest child.
(d) Inder Lal.

2. What is a sadhu?
(a) A blessing.
(b) A tomb painting.
(c) An unforgivable sin.
(d) A holy man.

3. Why does Inder Lal tell the narrator that his mother selected Ritu as his wife?
(a) She has all her teeth.
(b) She can read and write.
(c) She is uneducated.
(d) She brought a good dowry.

4. Where does the narrator say she is staying in her February 16th entry?
(a) In a room above a cloth shop.
(b) In the A's Hotel.
(c) In a room above the saloon.
(d) In Marcia's small hut outside of Satipur.

5. What best describes the Nawab's palace during the narrator's first visit?
(a) Gloomy and crumbling.
(b) Bustling with activity.
(c) Practically empty.
(d) Ornate and impressive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What paperwork does the narrator keep on her small desk in Part 1, Section 3?

2. Why does the Nawab tell Douglas he is visiting on the day that Douglas arrives home during one of the Nawab's regular visits to Olivia?

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

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

5. Who does the narrator say her grandmother is in the first section of the novel?

(see the answer key)

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