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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What paperwork does the narrator keep on her small desk in Part 1, Section 3?
(a) Olivia's letters, her journal and a Hindi grammar book.
(b) Olivia's letters, her journal and a guide to India.
(c) Her journal, Tessie's diary and a Hindi grammar book.
(d) Olivia's letters and the map to the palace.

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

5. What does Inder Lal's mother do to calm the screaming person in the courtyard the night of March 9th?
(a) Sings and rocks the person back to sleep.
(b) Gives the person a ginger and honey tea.
(c) Slaps the person in the face.
(d) Sprinkles rice and utters incantations.

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

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

8. What do the narrator and the person or people who accompany her on Husband's Wedding Day do once they are there?
(a) Help older widows.
(b) Share food and have a good time.
(c) Sing and pray.
(d) Dance, drink and listen to poems about Baba Firdau.

9. What is the narrator called in Part 1 Section 4?
(a) Begum.
(b) Nawab.
(c) Sass.
(d) Hirja.

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

11. 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 he lives in the palace and nothing happens there.
(c) That Khatm should be burned to the ground.
(d) That his mother lives in Khatm.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the palace watchman give to the narrator?

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

3. What does the narrator receive from Chid in Section 21?

4. What is a sadhu?

5. What is the Begum?

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