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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Section 25, what happens between Inder Lal and the narrator on their outing together?
(a) They make love.
(b) She kisses him and he leaves.
(c) They argue about Ritu.
(d) She slaps him.

3. How does Harry tell Olivia that the Nawab handles questions he does not wish to answer?
(a) He laughs at the questioner and then the questions.
(b) He answers the question with a question.
(c) He remains silent.
(d) He turns the question into an accusation of the questioner.

4. Who interrupts Olivia's abortion?
(a) The Nawab.
(b) Dr. Saunders.
(c) The Begum.
(d) Douglas.

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

6. Where does Olivia live after leaving Douglas?
(a) In England.
(b) Alone in Satipur City.
(c) In the palace with the Nawab.
(d) In a house in the mountains.

7. What is one benefit of the hotter weather in Section 25?
(a) The merchants at the bazaar are lazy and offer deals.
(b) The grove plants thrive.
(c) The palace opens a pool to the public.
(d) The mangoes are very sweet.

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

9. What does the doctor at the hospital ward say is wrong with Chid?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Rapidly advancing cancer.
(c) Nothing but a weakness of character.
(d) Dysentery, and a number of other ailments.

10. What is noticeable about the beggar woman that the narrator notices and ends up helping?
(a) She is crippled and sits on a low platform with wheels.
(b) She is blind and wears a band over her eyes.
(c) She never speaks; she holds out her hands when hungry.
(d) She sings throughout the day to earn money from passersby.

11. What does Maji say about the narrator's plans in the last section of the story?
(a) She disapproves, but says we create our own misery.
(b) She approves, but says the weather is not good.
(c) She disapproves and wants the narrator to change her mind.
(d) She approves and gives the narrator a gift to help her.

12. Why does Olivia ask Harry to do her the favor in Section 32?
(a) She wants to have the baby away from both men.
(b) She wants the Begum to embrace her child.
(c) She wants to cure her morning sickness.
(d) This is the first time she is worried about the baby's appearance.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maji offer the narrator in Section 33?

2. Why doesn't Harry pick Olivia up anymore in Section 22?

3. Who offers to perform an abortion for the pregnant person on July 31st?

4. What do Harry and Olivia quarrel about in Section 22?

5. With whom does Olivia spend her Sundays?

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