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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What best describes the royal tombs visited by the narrator in Section 13?
(a) Crumbling to the ground.
(b) Gilt with gold and very ornate.
(c) Enclosed by arches and dark.
(d) Simple and peaceful.

4. Where does the narrator say she is staying in her February 16th entry?
(a) In a room above a cloth shop.
(b) In a room above the saloon.
(c) In Marcia's small hut outside of Satipur.
(d) In the A's Hotel.

5. Who befriends the narrator and gets her good deals at the bazaar in Section 11?
(a) The tall woman who sells fruit.
(b) Inder Lal.
(c) Inder Lal's mother.
(d) Ritu.

6. 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 special visions.
(c) He wants to visit her but the Nawab won't permit it.
(d) She has dysentery.

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

8. 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 breaks down in tears.
(d) He loses interest and leaves.

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

10. When Chid visits the narrator, what does she do with her papers?
(a) Burns them.
(b) Works on them.
(c) Reads them to him.
(d) Hides them.

11. How does the narrator describe Chid?
(a) He's always hungry for sleep and sex.
(b) He's seeking for answers.
(c) He's a bit of calm in a storm of chaos.
(d) He carries an aura of danger.

12. Why does the narrator start sleeping in the outdoor courtyard with Inder Lal's family?
(a) To escape the heat.
(b) To see the stars.
(c) To be close to Inder Lal.
(d) To escape the rodents.

13. Where is Baba Firdau's shrine?
(a) Next to the suttee shrine.
(b) In Satipur.
(c) In Khatm.
(d) On palace grounds.

14. What does the narrator notice about the relationship between Ritu and Inder Lal's mother?
(a) Ritu obeys her mother-in-law.
(b) Ritu dotes on her mother-in-law.
(c) Ritu is abused by her mother-in-law.
(d) Ritu is openly hostile to her mother-in-law.

15. Who does not agree that a suttee is a form of suicide?
(a) Only Beth Crawford.
(b) Olivia and Beth Crawford.
(c) Major Minnies and Olivia.
(d) Douglas and Dr. Saunders.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator's first journal entry, where does she spend her first night in Bombay?

2. What do Olivia and Douglas argue about when the prince extends a second visit to the palace?

3. Why won't the narrator have sex with Chid in Section 17?

4. Where does the Nawab keep his pianos?

5. Who accompanies the narrator to the royal tombs in Section 13?

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