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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9 Section 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Chid?
(a) He carries an aura of danger.
(b) He's seeking for answers.
(c) He's always hungry for sleep and sex.
(d) He's a bit of calm in a storm of chaos.

2. What does the narrator think about Karim living in India?
(a) She thinks he is too sickly to live in India.
(b) She can't imagine him living in India.
(c) She thinks he is too materialistic to live in India.
(d) She doesn't understand why he doesn't come to India.

3. How does Chid explain Ritu's screams?
(a) He says this is the best path for her to find enlightenment.
(b) He says she is being treated by special infusions of a certain drug.
(c) He says this is her punishment for her sins.
(d) He says she is being treated with red hot irons on her hands and feet.

4. Where does the narrator first notice the beggar woman in Section 23?
(a) Outside the house where Olivia used to live.
(b) At the bazaar where she buys her food.
(c) By the suttee shrine.
(d) At the place where she takes her clothes.

5. Who tells the narrator the old beggar woman's name?
(a) Inder Lal's mother.
(b) Maji.
(c) Ruti.
(d) The laundry woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of the schedule that Olivia and Douglas keep in Section 24?

2. On the first day after Harry's recovery that he accompanies the Nawab to pick up Olivia, where do Olivia and the Nawab go?

3. Why, in Section 24, does Olivia cease to hurry home after her visits to the palace?

4. Where does Chid recover from his fever?

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

(see the answer key)

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