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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 does the narrator say she learns about the house where Olivia and Douglas used to live in the February 16th journal entry?
(a) It is condemned.
(b) It is for sale.
(c) It houses a post office substation.
(d) It has been torn down.

2. How does the narrator describe her relationship with her grandfather?
(a) They were very close.
(b) They disliked each other.
(c) She never met him.
(d) She hardly remembers him.

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

4. 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?
(a) To offer a traditional prayer of welcome for their home.
(b) To congratulate Douglas for the way he handled a recent death.
(c) To invite Douglas to work in the palace.
(d) To invite Douglas and Olivia to a dinner in their honor.

5. Who is the recipient of Olivia's letters that are in the narrator's possession?
(a) Beth.
(b) Mrs. Saunders.
(c) Ritu.
(d) Marcia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won't the narrator have sex with Chid in Section 17?

2. Why does the narrator say she buys Indian clothing after settling into her new place in Satipur?

3. What best describes the narrator's morning routine at her room in Satipur?

4. What best describes Chid as a houseguest?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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