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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. What best describes the Nawab's palace during the narrator's first visit?
(a) Bustling with activity.
(b) Practically empty.
(c) Ornate and impressive.
(d) Gloomy and crumbling.

2. What do Karim and his friends think about the narrator's plans to visit India?
(a) That she will find the answers she is seeking.
(b) That she will fit in effortlessly.
(c) That modern India is an impossible place to live.
(d) That a Westerner won't last for a month.

3. Why was Baba Firdau's shrine built?
(a) To bless the harvest.
(b) To honor the Nawab's great grandmother.
(c) To grant fertility to the Nawab and his wife.
(d) To honor one who gave shelter to an ancestor of the Nawab.

4. How does the narrator explain her spiritual calling to Inder Lal?
(a) She doesn't understand it, but feels pulled by a higher power.
(b) She does not feel any spiritual calling.
(c) She feels she must find a spiritual calling, or is doomed.
(d) She felt called to come to India to pursue a higher calling.

5. Whose father died from a stroke when he was only 15?
(a) Mr. Saunders.
(b) The Nawab.
(c) Mr. Crawford.
(d) Douglas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 25, what happens between Inder Lal and the narrator on their outing together?

2. Describe the pianos that the Nawab shows to Olivia.

3. What game do Olivia and Nawab play when he first takes her to the grove?

4. What does Olivia see in the room with the Nawab's pianos?

5. Why does Inder Lal say that he agreed to the treatment that Ritu receives?

(see the answer key)

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