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

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. What does Maji say will happen after the pilgrimage party reaches the tree line of the mountain base?
(a) Ritu will proceed on her own.
(b) Ritu's healing will begin.
(c) Some will faint with joy.
(d) They will do a dance to thank the good spirits.

4. Who gives Olivia's letters to Marcia?
(a) Harry.
(b) Beth.
(c) An anonymous source.
(d) Douglas.

5. What is a suttee?
(a) A religious icon of an older woman.
(b) A long mat used for praying.
(c) A fertility symbol.
(d) A religious suicide of a widow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of Maji?

2. Who volunteers to take the narrator to the Nawab's palace in Khatm for the first time?

3. What is the relationship between Tessie and Beth?

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

5. What does Olivia seem to feel about determining the father of her child in Section 29?

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