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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. Why does Harry return to the palace after staying with Olivia and Douglas for several days?
(a) He receives news that the Nawab is ill.
(b) Douglas suspects he is having an affair with Olivia.
(c) Olivia makes him leave.
(d) The Nawab comes to get him.

2. Where is Baba Firdau's shrine?
(a) In Satipur.
(b) In Khatm.
(c) On palace grounds.
(d) Next to the suttee shrine.

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

4. According to the narrator's first journal entry, where does she spend her first night in Bombay?
(a) With a woman she met on the trip over.
(b) In a missionary hostel.
(c) In a cheap hotel attached to a bar.
(d) In a doorway.

5. In whose arms does the old beggar woman die?
(a) Maji's.
(b) Inder Lal's mother's.
(c) The narrator's.
(d) Ruti's.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Maji say will happen after the pilgrimage party reaches the tree line of the mountain base?

4. Why does Major Minnies consider "Husband's Wedding Day" a problem?

5. Where does the Nawab keep his pianos?

(see the answer key)

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