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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. How long does Maji say it will take Ritu to reach the destination on the pilgrimage?
(a) A matter of days.
(b) 42 days.
(c) A year and a day.
(d) Weeks and months of traveling.

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

3. What best describes the royal tombs visited by the narrator in Section 13?
(a) Crumbling to the ground.
(b) Gilt with gold and very ornate.
(c) Enclosed by arches and dark.
(d) Simple and peaceful.

4. How do Ritu's screams affect Chid?
(a) He covers his ears and tells her to shut up.
(b) He goes to her side to try and calm her immediately.
(c) He is unaffected.
(d) He cries and chants.

5. Who does the narrator say her grandmother is in the first section of the novel?
(a) Beth.
(b) Marcia.
(c) Olivia.
(d) Tessie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes Chid as a houseguest?

2. Who says she came to India to find peace, but only got dysentery?

3. What do Olivia and Douglas argue about when the prince extends a second visit to the palace?

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

5. How do the narrator and Chid appear in Satipur?

(see the answer key)

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