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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) Major Minnies.
(b) The Nawab.
(c) Mrs. Crawford.
(d) Mr. Crawford.

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

3. How does the narrator describe her relationship with her grandfather?
(a) She hardly remembers him.
(b) They disliked each other.
(c) She never met him.
(d) They were very close.

4. Why is Ritu sent on a pilgrimage?
(a) To pray for rain.
(b) To represent the village.
(c) To heal a sick child.
(d) To heal her ailments.

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) The wife of the major at the Nawab's dinner party.
(d) Beth Crawford.

6. Whose father died from a stroke when he was only 15?
(a) Mr. Crawford.
(b) Douglas.
(c) The Nawab.
(d) Mr. Saunders.

7. Describe the pianos that the Nawab shows to Olivia.
(a) Both are in disrepair.
(b) One is black and the other is white.
(c) One is a baby grand, the other is a child-sized spinnet.
(d) Both are well-maintained.

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

9. What does Olivia see in the room with the Nawab's pianos?
(a) A painting of herself.
(b) A painting of his first wife.
(c) Rusting camera equipment.
(d) A child-size bicycle.

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

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

12. Who does the narrator discover when she investigates the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Ritu.
(b) Inder Lal.
(c) The angry English woman she met at the British bungalow.
(d) Chid.

13. 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 intimidated by the idea of meeting royalty.
(c) She is excited to show off her dress and jewels.
(d) She is excited to talk to Mrs. Crawford and other women.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the recipient of Olivia's letters that are in the narrator's possession?

2. How does the narrator describe Chid?

3. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?

4. Who recommended the treatment that Ritu is receiving that makes her scream?

5. What happens when Olivia plays the piano for the Nawab?

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