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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. Who goes with Ritu on her pilgrimage to the Himalayas?
(a) Inder Lal's mother and the narrator.
(b) The narrator and Chid.
(c) Maji and the narrator.
(d) Inder Lal's mother and Chid.

2. 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?
(a) Mrs. Saunders.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Olivia.
(d) Major Minnies.

3. What does Chid wear?
(a) A soldier's uniform.
(b) A very worn straw farmer's hat.
(c) An orange Indian ascetic's robe.
(d) A beggar's badge.

4. Who says she came to India to find peace, but only got dysentery?
(a) Beth Crawford.
(b) The wife of the major at the Nawab's dinner party.
(c) An English girl the narrator meets at an old bungalow.
(d) Mrs. Saunders.

5. Why does Major Minnies consider "Husband's Wedding Day" a problem?
(a) The Nawab promotes anti-English sentiment on this day.
(b) There is conflict between the Hindus and the Muslims.
(c) There are too many people in a small space.
(d) The Nawab encourages fighting on this day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes the Nawab's palace during the narrator's first visit?

2. Why does Inder Lal tell the narrator that his mother selected Ritu as his wife?

3. How does Olivia feel when she is first invited to visit the Nawab's palace with Douglas in 1923?

4. What paperwork does the narrator keep on her small desk in Part 1, Section 3?

5. What is a suttee?

(see the answer key)

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