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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5 Section 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator and the person or people who accompany her on Husband's Wedding Day do once they are there?
(a) Share food and have a good time.
(b) Help older widows.
(c) Sing and pray.
(d) Dance, drink and listen to poems about Baba Firdau.

2. What best describes the narrator's room when both Chid and Ritu are in it?
(a) It becomes a friendly haven for all three of them.
(b) It takes on a peace it did not have before.
(c) It sounds like a religious war.
(d) It is full of silent tension.

3. What best describes the natural elements in Satipur according to the narrator's April 25th journal entry?
(a) There are blooming flowers and gentle breezes.
(b) Plants and crops are dying.
(c) There are dust storms and hot winds.
(d) There is constant rain and a lack of sun.

4. Who gives Olivia's letters to Marcia?
(a) Harry.
(b) Douglas.
(c) An anonymous source.
(d) Beth.

5. Why does Inder Lal say that he agreed to the treatment that Ritu receives?
(a) Nothing else has worked.
(b) It is good for her soul.
(c) The person recommending it healed with this treatment.
(d) He meditated on the problem and believes this is the best course of action.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who tells the narrator that nothing human is important in India?

(see the answer key)

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