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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 10 Section 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe the pianos that the Nawab shows to Olivia.
(a) One is black and the other is white.
(b) One is a baby grand, the other is a child-sized spinnet.
(c) Both are in disrepair.
(d) Both are well-maintained.

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

3. What happens when Olivia plays the piano for the Nawab?
(a) He starts to sing.
(b) He breaks down in tears.
(c) He sits down at the other piano and plays.
(d) He loses interest and leaves.

4. Who volunteers to take the narrator to the Nawab's palace in Khatm for the first time?
(a) Harry.
(b) Mr. Crawford.
(c) Inder Lal.
(d) Douglas.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tells the narrator the old beggar woman's name?

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

4. Who is the recipient of Olivia's letters that are in the narrator's possession?

5. Why doesn't Harry take the berth that Douglas has arranged for him?

(see the answer key)

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