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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5 Section 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where is Baba Firdau's shrine?
(a) In Satipur.
(b) Next to the suttee shrine.
(c) On palace grounds.
(d) In Khatm.

4. Who volunteers to take the narrator to the Nawab's palace in Khatm for the first time?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Harry.
(c) Inder Lal.
(d) Mr. Crawford.

5. Why was Baba Firdau's shrine built?
(a) To bless the harvest.
(b) To grant fertility to the Nawab and his wife.
(c) To honor the Nawab's great grandmother.
(d) To honor one who gave shelter to an ancestor of the Nawab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, at the Crawford's dinner party, that if a woman wants to throw her life away for her religion it is her choice?

2. Who gives Olivia's letters to Marcia?

3. According to the narrator's first journal entry, where does she spend her first night in Bombay?

4. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?

5. What does Harry tell the narrator when she asks him for news on Khatm when he visits in Section 16?

(see the answer key)

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