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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. Why does the narrator say she buys Indian clothing after settling into her new place in Satipur?
(a) She wants to fit in.
(b) It is feminine and alluring.
(c) It is cheaper and cooler.
(d) Her suitcase of clothing is stolen.

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

3. How do the narrator and Chid appear in Satipur?
(a) They are ignored and treated like ghosts.
(b) They blend in.
(c) They are revered like prophets.
(d) They stand out.

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

5. What paperwork does the narrator keep on her small desk in Part 1, Section 3?
(a) Olivia's letters and the map to the palace.
(b) Her journal, Tessie's diary and a Hindi grammar book.
(c) Olivia's letters, her journal and a Hindi grammar book.
(d) Olivia's letters, her journal and a guide to India.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chid do when someone gives him a guava or a banana?

2. Who volunteers to take the narrator to the Nawab's palace in Khatm for the first time?

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

4. Who accompanies the narrator to the royal tombs in Section 13?

5. Who is the recipient of Olivia's letters that are in the narrator's possession?

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