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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often and when does the narrator see Chid in Section 31?
(a) Only when she sneaks into the ward.
(b) Daily, when he visits her.
(c) Daily, when she visits him.
(d) Rarely, and only when she can get a ride with Maji.

2. What do Harry and Olivia quarrel about in Section 22?
(a) Harry wants Olivia to run away with him.
(b) Olivia believes that Harry is going to tell Douglas about the time she spends with the Nawab.
(c) Harry says Olivia shouldn't visit the palace.
(d) Harry wants Olivia to tell Douglas about her time with the Nawab.

3. Where does the narrator first notice the beggar woman in Section 23?
(a) At the place where she takes her clothes.
(b) By the suttee shrine.
(c) At the bazaar where she buys her food.
(d) Outside the house where Olivia used to live.

4. How does the narrator feel about her pregnancy when she visits Maji's hut?
(a) She is uncertain about it.
(b) She is desperate to end it.
(c) She wants to share it with Inder Lal.
(d) She ends up in a state of rapture.

5. Where does the narrator go on her way to the bazaar on August 31st?
(a) To visit Ritu.
(b) To the monsoon pond in the village center.
(c) To Maji's hut.
(d) To tie strings at the shrine.

6. How are Olivia's visits to the palace affected after she tells the Nawab that she is pregnant?
(a) She visits less often.
(b) She visits more often.
(c) She spends more time with the Begum.
(d) She stops going.

7. What does the Nawab joke about on the day that he and Olivia make love for the first time?
(a) A suttee death.
(b) Husband's Wedding Day.
(c) Wives and widows.
(d) Baba Firdau.

8. Who warns Olivia that "they" only want to "you-know-what with a white woman"?
(a) Major Saunders.
(b) Harry.
(c) Douglas.
(d) Mrs. Saunders.

9. What does the narrator say that Douglas's only son becomes when he grows up?
(a) A military soldier.
(b) A sadhu.
(c) An antique dealer.
(d) A British ambassador.

10. How are Satipur and Ktahm described in Section 34?
(a) Stuffy.
(b) Slummy.
(c) Bustling.
(d) Crowded.

11. With whom does Olivia spend her Sundays?
(a) Beth Crawford.
(b) The Nawab.
(c) Douglas.
(d) Harry.

12. Where does Olivia go after her abortion?
(a) To her home.
(b) To the palace.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To England.

13. Where does the narrator say that Douglas's only son grows up?
(a) With Olivia in a Himalayan town.
(b) In England and America.
(c) In India and England.
(d) In Satipur City.

14. In whose arms does the old beggar woman die?
(a) Ruti's.
(b) The narrator's.
(c) Inder Lal's mother's.
(d) Maji's.

15. Where do Olivia and Douglas go when they walk together in the evenings?
(a) To the church garden.
(b) To the nearby shrine.
(c) To the graveyard.
(d) To the village center.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator and Inder Lal go together in Section 25?

2. What accounts for the intensely hot weather in Section 25?

3. Who does the narrator believe is the father of the pregnant person she learns about on July 31st?

4. What is true of the weather in Section 23?

5. What does Olivia ask Harry to do in Section 32?

(see the answer keys)

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