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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes the narrator's room when both Chid and Ritu are in it?
(a) It becomes a friendly haven for all three of them.
(b) It takes on a peace it did not have before.
(c) It is full of silent tension.
(d) It sounds like a religious war.

2. What best describes Chid as a houseguest?
(a) Quiet as a mouse.
(b) Lazy and messy.
(c) Helpful and unobtrusive.
(d) Noisy and clumsy.

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

4. Who volunteers to take the narrator to the Nawab's palace in Khatm for the first time?
(a) Mr. Crawford.
(b) Inder Lal.
(c) Harry.
(d) Douglas.

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

6. What best describes the Nawab's palace during the narrator's first visit?
(a) Practically empty.
(b) Bustling with activity.
(c) Ornate and impressive.
(d) Gloomy and crumbling.

7. Why is the person the narrator discovers inside the royal tomb there, in Section 13?
(a) The person is praying.
(b) The person is sick with fever.
(c) The person is being held prisoner.
(d) The person is hiding.

8. Who accompanies the narrator to Husband's Wedding Day?
(a) Chid.
(b) Ritu.
(c) No one.
(d) Inder Lal's mother and her friends.

9. Where does the Nawab keep his pianos?
(a) In the Grand Hall.
(b) At the end of a log maze of halls and rooms.
(c) In his private quarters.
(d) In a beautiful conservatory with glass windows overlooking the garden.

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

11. How does the narrator describe Baba Firdau's shrine?
(a) It is simple and radiates peace.
(b) Poorly maintained.
(c) She never sees it.
(d) It is full of phallic symbols and fertility icons.

12. Where does the narrator's new friend take her in Section 11?
(a) To the grove where Olivia and the Nawab went.
(b) To the suttee shrine.
(c) To a well where the women gather.
(d) To a library to see some papers regarding Olivia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she learns about the house where Olivia and Douglas used to live in the February 16th journal entry?

2. How does the narrator describe her relationship with her grandfather?

3. Why does Major Minnies consider "Husband's Wedding Day" a problem?

4. What do Karim and his friends think about the narrator's plans to visit India?

5. What is a suttee?

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