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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Sprinkles rice and utters incantations.
(c) Slaps the person in the face.
(d) Gives the person a ginger and honey tea.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Maji say will happen after the pilgrimage party reaches the tree line of the mountain base?
(a) They will do a dance to thank the good spirits.
(b) Ritu will proceed on her own.
(c) Ritu's healing will begin.
(d) Some will faint with joy.

10. Who goes with Ritu on her pilgrimage to the Himalayas?
(a) The narrator and Chid.
(b) Inder Lal's mother and Chid.
(c) Maji and the narrator.
(d) Inder Lal's mother and the narrator.

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

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

13. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) A loud groaning.
(b) Something in Olivia's letters.
(c) Something she read at the library.
(d) A symbol she sees on the outside of the tomb.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the narrator and Chid appear in Satipur?

2. Where does Chid recover from his fever?

3. Who says she came to India to find peace, but only got dysentery?

4. How does Chid's chanting affect the narrator?

5. How does Chid explain Ritu's screams?

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