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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How do the narrator and Chid appear in Satipur?
(a) They stand out.
(b) They blend in.
(c) They are revered like prophets.
(d) They are ignored and treated like ghosts.

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

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

5. Who says she came to India to find peace, but only got dysentery?
(a) Mrs. Saunders.
(b) An English girl the narrator meets at an old bungalow.
(c) Beth Crawford.
(d) The wife of the major at the Nawab's dinner party.

6. According to Olivia's letters, where do Mrs. Crawford and Mrs. Minnies go together in 1923?
(a) Ktahm.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Simla.

7. Who is the recipient of Olivia's letters that are in the narrator's possession?
(a) Mrs. Saunders.
(b) Beth.
(c) Ritu.
(d) Marcia.

8. What does Inder Lal say about his belief in evil spirits?
(a) He believes that evil spirits cannot enter a virtuous person.
(b) He does not believe in evil spirits.
(c) He believes that evil spirits are all around us.
(d) He does not believe in any type of God or spirits.

9. Who says, at the Crawford's dinner party, that if a woman wants to throw her life away for her religion it is her choice?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Major Minnies.
(c) Mrs. Saunders.
(d) Olivia.

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

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

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

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

14. How does Olivia feel when she is first invited to visit the Nawab's palace with Douglas in 1923?
(a) She dreads spending time with stuffy government types.
(b) She is excited to talk to Mrs. Crawford and other women.
(c) She is excited to show off her dress and jewels.
(d) She is intimidated by the idea of meeting royalty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the religious significance of Baba Firdau's shrine?

2. Who accompanies the narrator to Husband's Wedding Day?

3. Where is Baba Firdau's shrine?

4. Describe the pianos that the Nawab shows to Olivia.

5. What does Chid wear?

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