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

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

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

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

5. Why does Harry tell the narrator and Mrs. Crawford that he has only been to the Nawab's mountain chalet once?
(a) The fire made it unlivable.
(b) The Begum doesn't like it.
(c) It holds bitter memories for the Nawab.
(d) He was forbidden to return after that first visit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Olivia four days after she and Douglas attend their first dinner party at the palace?

2. Where does the narrator's new friend take her in Section 11?

3. Who awakens the narrator by screaming in the courtyard on March 9th?

4. What does the narrator notice about the relationship between Ritu and Inder Lal's mother?

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

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