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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) The women treat her kindly, but the men ignore her.
(b) The men treat her kindly, but the women talk behind her back.
(c) They treat her with more respect.
(d) They act as if she is unclean.

3. What else do Olivia and the Nawab do together on the day they first make love?
(a) Discuss naming the baby.
(b) Tie red strings and make wishes.
(c) Read poems to each other.
(d) Pick mangoes and feed each other.

4. What do the narrator and Inder Lal do together in Section 25?
(a) Buy medicine for Ritu.
(b) Pick mangoes.
(c) Collect seeds for planting.
(d) Have a picnic.

5. Why, in Section 24, does Olivia cease to hurry home after her visits to the palace?
(a) Douglas goes to the pub after work.
(b) Douglas keeps longer hours at the office.
(c) Douglas goes to a men's club after work.
(d) Douglas believes she is visiting the library.

6. What is Chid's status in Section 30?
(a) He is comatose.
(b) He has been released from the hospital.
(c) He is admitted to the hopsital.
(d) He is dying.

7. How does the doctor at the hospital ward respond to Chid and the narrator?
(a) He is eager to engage them in English conversations.
(b) He avoids speaking to them at all.
(c) He seems very curious about their relationship.
(d) He seems angry and speaks to them like they are beneath him.

8. Who becomes Douglas's second wife?
(a) Marcia's sister.
(b) Beth's sister.
(c) Mrs. Saunders' cousin.
(d) Harry's cousin.

9. Who do Harry, the Nawab, and Olivia laugh at in Section 24?
(a) Major Minnies.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Mrs. Saunders.
(d) Dr. Saunders.

10. In Section 24, why does Douglas seem to believe that Olivia travels frequently to Khatm?
(a) To visit the library.
(b) To visit the Begum.
(c) To visit Harry.
(d) To accompany Beth Crawford.

11. What does Maji offer the narrator in Section 33?
(a) A relaxing massage.
(b) An abortion inducing massage.
(c) A swimming outfit.
(d) Her hut.

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

13. In Section 25, what do Inder Lal and the narrator do with the red strings?
(a) Offer them to the healer.
(b) Tie them to the tree in the grove.
(c) Tie them to the lattice and make wishes.
(d) Tie them in the narrator's hair.

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

15. Describe Chid's health upon his August 15th return.
(a) He is constipated.
(b) He is unable to eat solid foods.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He is constantly fatigued.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about Inder Lal, according to her August 15th journal entry?

2. Where does the narrator say that Douglas's only son grows up?

3. When does Olivia cease writing letters to Marcia?

4. What environmental change is apparent in Section 32?

5. What does the narrator tell Maji in the final section of the novel?

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