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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Inder Lal say that he agreed to the treatment that Ritu receives?
(a) He meditated on the problem and believes this is the best course of action.
(b) Nothing else has worked.
(c) The person recommending it healed with this treatment.
(d) It is good for her soul.

2. What does Harry tell the narrator when she asks him for news on Khatm when he visits in Section 16?
(a) That his mother lives in Khatm.
(b) That she shouldn't ask so many questions.
(c) That he lives in the palace and nothing happens there.
(d) That Khatm should be burned to the ground.

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) They will do a dance to thank the good spirits.
(c) Some will faint with joy.
(d) Ritu's healing will begin.

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

5. Who decides that Ritu will go on a pilgrimage?
(a) Ritu.
(b) Chid.
(c) The village women.
(d) Inder Lal.

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

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

8. What happens when Ritu visits the narrator in her room after she tries unsuccessfully to throw Chid out of her room?
(a) Ritu and Chid fight.
(b) Ritu curls up in a corner and starts shrieking.
(c) Ritus starts chanting with Chid.
(d) Chid seems to calm Ritu.

9. What does Chid wear?
(a) An orange Indian ascetic's robe.
(b) A very worn straw farmer's hat.
(c) A soldier's uniform.
(d) A beggar's badge.

10. What does the palace watchman give to the narrator?
(a) Mango leaves.
(b) A key.
(c) The rupees she drops on the way in.
(d) Rock sugar and flower petals.

11. Who visits Olivia four days after she and Douglas attend their first dinner party at the palace?
(a) Mrs. Crawford.
(b) The Nawab.
(c) Major Minnies.
(d) Mr. Crawford.

12. Where is Ritu going on her pilgrimage?
(a) To the Himalayas.
(b) To the River of Tears.
(c) To a shrine for sick women.
(d) To an ashram near Bombay.

13. What is the relationship between Tessie and Beth?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They are best friends.
(c) They are bitter enemies.
(d) They are sisters.

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

15. How does the narrator describe her relationship with her grandfather?
(a) She hardly remembers him.
(b) They were very close.
(c) She never met him.
(d) They disliked each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about Karim living in India?

2. What best describes the natural elements in Satipur according to the narrator's April 25th journal entry?

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

4. What does the narrator notice about the relationship between Ritu and Inder Lal's mother?

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

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