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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. What is true of the weather in Section 23?
(a) There are blue skies and no signs of rain.
(b) The heat remains stifling.
(c) The heat has subsided and monsoon season has begun.
(d) Constant rains make the streets too muddy to walk in.

2. What best describes the narrator's room when both Chid and Ritu are in it?
(a) It is full of silent tension.
(b) It takes on a peace it did not have before.
(c) It becomes a friendly haven for all three of them.
(d) It sounds like a religious war.

3. Who warns Olivia that "they" only want to "you-know-what with a white woman"?
(a) Major Saunders.
(b) Harry.
(c) Mrs. Saunders.
(d) Douglas.

4. Where does Chid recover from his fever?
(a) In the narrator's room.
(b) In Inder Lal's home.
(c) In the suttee shrine.
(d) In the royal tomb.

5. Why is Mrs. Saunders ill when Olivia first meets her?
(a) She has malaria.
(b) She lost a child.
(c) She has dysentery.
(d) She lost her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Olivia four days after she and Douglas attend their first dinner party at the palace?

2. Where does the Nawab keep his pianos?

3. Who does the narrator discover when she investigates the royal tomb on March 30th?

4. Why doesn't Harry pick Olivia up anymore in Section 22?

5. Why does the narrator tell Inder Lal that she is in India (other than for Olivia's letters)?

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