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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Something in Olivia's letters.
(b) A loud groaning.
(c) A symbol she sees on the outside of the tomb.
(d) Something she read at the library.

3. 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 Olivia.
(c) He does not want to leave his mother.
(d) The Nawab cancels the berth.

4. How do the narrator and Chid appear in Satipur?
(a) They are revered like prophets.
(b) They stand out.
(c) They blend in.
(d) They are ignored and treated like ghosts.

5. What does the palace watchman give to the narrator?
(a) The rupees she drops on the way in.
(b) Rock sugar and flower petals.
(c) A key.
(d) Mango leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Chid visits the narrator, what does she do with her papers?

2. Who says, at the Crawford's dinner party, that if a woman wants to throw her life away for her religion it is her choice?

3. Why does Harry return to the palace after staying with Olivia and Douglas for several days?

4. What does Maji say will happen after the pilgrimage party reaches the tree line of the mountain base?

5. According to the narrator's first journal entry, where does she spend her first night in Bombay?

Short Essay Questions

1. How will the pilgrimage help Ritu?

2. How does the narrator feel upon discovering that she is pregnant?

3. Compare Chid's letters in Section 21 to Olivia's letters.

4. Explain how the narrator's sleep is interrupted in Section 10.

5. Describe Chid's appearance when the narrator finds him in the royal tomb.

6. Describe Chid's health in Section 30.

7. Describe Chid's transformation in Section 28.

8. Describe Maji.

9. How do Ritu's screams and Chid's chants affect the narrator in Section17?

10. Explain how the narrator tells Chid and Inder Lal about her pregnancy in Section 28.

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