Heat and Dust Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Heat and Dust Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the townspeople treat Chid?
(a) With curiosity.
(b) With fear.
(c) With respect.
(d) With disdain.

2. What does the narrator decide to discuss with Inder Lal after Ritu's screaming episode in her room?
(a) Having Ritu go to a hospital.
(b) Psychiatric treatment.
(c) Evicting Chid.
(d) Having Ritu stay with her.

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

4. What does Harry tell the narrator and Mrs. Crawford about his mother in Section 15?
(a) He visits her in Khatm every week.
(b) She has dysentery.
(c) He wants to visit her but the Nawab won't permit it.
(d) She has special visions.

5. What game do Olivia and Nawab play when he first takes her to the grove?
(a) The Begum.
(b) Hide and go seek.
(c) Charades.
(d) Musical chairs.

6. What is a sadhu?
(a) A tomb painting.
(b) A holy man.
(c) A blessing.
(d) An unforgivable sin.

7. Why does the narrator tell Inder Lal that she is in India (other than for Olivia's letters)?
(a) To find herself.
(b) To pursue a dream.
(c) To build a future.
(d) To escape the materialism of the West.

8. What does the narrator say she learns about the house where Olivia and Douglas used to live in the February 16th journal entry?
(a) It has been torn down.
(b) It is condemned.
(c) It houses a post office substation.
(d) It is for sale.

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

10. What does Chid do when someone gives him a guava or a banana?
(a) Gives profuse thanks and then gives it to a hungry child.
(b) Shares it with the narrator.
(c) Eats it himself and leaves the peel on the floor.
(d) Hoards it near his sleeping mat.

11. What do the narrator and the person or people who accompany her on Husband's Wedding Day do once they are there?
(a) Sing and pray.
(b) Share food and have a good time.
(c) Help older widows.
(d) Dance, drink and listen to poems about Baba Firdau.

12. Who does the narrator discover when she investigates the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Chid.
(b) Ritu.
(c) Inder Lal.
(d) The angry English woman she met at the British bungalow.

13. Why is Ritu sent on a pilgrimage?
(a) To represent the village.
(b) To heal her ailments.
(c) To heal a sick child.
(d) To pray for rain.

14. What is the Begum?
(a) The Nawab's mother.
(b) The tree outside of Mrs. Saunders' window.
(c) A traditional Indian game.
(d) The Indian term for an English woman's gloves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Baba Firdau's shrine?

2. What does Inder Lal's mother do to calm the screaming person in the courtyard the night of March 9th?

3. Where does Chid recover from his fever?

4. Why does Harry return to the palace after staying with Olivia and Douglas for several days?

5. Why does the narrator start sleeping in the outdoor courtyard with Inder Lal's family?

(see the answer keys)

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