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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true of the weather in Section 23?
(a) The heat has subsided and monsoon season has begun.
(b) There are blue skies and no signs of rain.
(c) Constant rains make the streets too muddy to walk in.
(d) The heat remains stifling.

2. How do the people at the hospital ward react to the narrator after she empties the bed pan of the man in the bed next to Chid?
(a) They act as if she is unclean.
(b) The men treat her kindly, but the women talk behind her back.
(c) The women treat her kindly, but the men ignore her.
(d) They treat her with more respect.

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

4. What accounts for the intensely hot weather in Section 25?
(a) The way the valley holds the heat.
(b) The lack of cloud cover.
(c) The drought.
(d) The coming monsoons.

5. Who does the Nawab have a meeting with on the day that Olivia tells him that she is pregnant?
(a) Mr. Crawford.
(b) Major Minnies.
(c) The Begum's adviser.
(d) Douglas.

6. What is true of the schedule that Olivia and Douglas keep in Section 24?
(a) Douglas come to bed hours after Olivia.
(b) Olivia gets up early to make breakfast for Douglas.
(c) Douglas goes to bed very early and insists that Olivia does the same.
(d) Olivia stays up late at night and sleeps late in the morning.

7. Where is Chid at the end of Section 30?
(a) He is back at the narrator's room.
(b) Dead, and his body awaits cremation.
(c) In the hospital ward.
(d) He has left, but no one knows where he is.

8. Who does Olivia first tell about her pregnancy?
(a) Douglas.
(b) The Begum.
(c) Harry.
(d) The Nawab.

9. Why is the beggar woman who the narrator brings to the hospital living on the streets?
(a) Her husband divorced her and kicked her out of the home.
(b) She has no remaining relatives.
(c) She was evicted by her family after her husband died.
(d) No one knows where she comes from.

10. Why doesn't Harry pick Olivia up anymore in Section 22?
(a) He is now employed by the Begum.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He has gone to the Nawab's mountain chalet.
(d) The Nawab has forbidden him to be alone with her.

11. Who tells the narrator the old beggar woman's name?
(a) Ruti.
(b) Inder Lal's mother.
(c) The laundry woman.
(d) Maji.

12. What does the narrator report in her August 31st journal entry?
(a) She cannot eat mangoes without getting sick.
(b) She is very ill.
(c) She is followed by a woman.
(d) She has shaved her head.

13. What does the narrator tell Inder Lal about her pregnancy upon Chid's return?
(a) That the child is his.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That the child is Chid's.
(d) That she has had an abortion.

14. On the first day after Harry's recovery that he accompanies the Nawab to pick up Olivia, where do Olivia and the Nawab go?
(a) To Baba Firdau's Shrine and the grove.
(b) To the palace garden.
(c) To a celebration for the fertility goddess.
(d) To a banquet in the Nawab's honor.

15. Where does the narrator take a room in the final chapter?
(a) In town X, in the Himalayas.
(b) In Maji's hut.
(c) In her grandmother's town.
(d) In the mountain house where Olivia last lived.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Olivia ask Harry to do her the favor in Section 32?

2. In Section 25, what happens between Inder Lal and the narrator on their outing together?

3. What is one benefit of the hotter weather in Section 25?

4. What is noticeable about the beggar woman that the narrator notices and ends up helping?

5. In Section 25, what do Inder Lal and the narrator do with the red strings?

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