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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Inder Lal tell the narrator that his mother selected Ritu as his wife?
(a) She brought a good dowry.
(b) She is uneducated.
(c) She can read and write.
(d) She has all her teeth.

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

4. Who does the narrator say her grandmother is in the first section of the novel?
(a) Beth.
(b) Tessie.
(c) Marcia.
(d) Olivia.

5. How do Ritu's screams affect Chid?
(a) He goes to her side to try and calm her immediately.
(b) He is unaffected.
(c) He cries and chants.
(d) He covers his ears and tells her to shut up.

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

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

8. Why doesn't Harry take the berth that Douglas has arranged for him?
(a) He has his own berth arranged.
(b) The Nawab cancels the berth.
(c) He does not want to leave his mother.
(d) He does not want to leave Olivia.

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

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

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

12. Why was Baba Firdau's shrine built?
(a) To honor one who gave shelter to an ancestor of the Nawab.
(b) To grant fertility to the Nawab and his wife.
(c) To bless the harvest.
(d) To honor the Nawab's great grandmother.

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

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

15. Why does Major Minnies consider "Husband's Wedding Day" a problem?
(a) There are too many people in a small space.
(b) The Nawab encourages fighting on this day.
(c) There is conflict between the Hindus and the Muslims.
(d) The Nawab promotes anti-English sentiment on this day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chid do when someone gives him a guava or a banana?

2. What does the narrator decide to discuss with Inder Lal after Ritu's screaming episode in her room?

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

4. Why does Inder Lal say that he agreed to the treatment that Ritu receives?

5. Why is the person the narrator discovers inside the royal tomb there, in Section 13?

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