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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. How does Chid's chanting affect the narrator?
(a) She finds it peaceful
(b) She finds it unbearable.
(c) It lulls her to sleep.
(d) It's just another background noise.

2. What does Chid do when someone gives him a guava or a banana?
(a) Eats it himself and leaves the peel on the floor.
(b) Shares it with the narrator.
(c) Gives profuse thanks and then gives it to a hungry child.
(d) Hoards it near his sleeping mat.

3. Describe the pianos that the Nawab shows to Olivia.
(a) Both are in disrepair.
(b) One is a baby grand, the other is a child-sized spinnet.
(c) Both are well-maintained.
(d) One is black and the other is white.

4. What is a suttee?
(a) A fertility symbol.
(b) A religious suicide of a widow.
(c) A long mat used for praying.
(d) A religious icon of an older woman.

5. Who befriends the narrator and gets her good deals at the bazaar in Section 11?
(a) The tall woman who sells fruit.
(b) Inder Lal.
(c) Inder Lal's mother.
(d) Ritu.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does not agree that a suttee is a form of suicide?

3. Who visits Olivia four days after she and Douglas attend their first dinner party at the palace?

4. Where does the narrator say she is staying in her February 16th entry?

5. Who tells the narrator that nothing human is important in India?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Satipur like in Section 17?

2. Describe Olivia and Douglas's relationship in Section 23.

3. Explain the importance of the piano in Section 20.

4. Why does Douglas accept the Nawab's presence in his home so readily in Section 12?

5. Why does Olivia write to Marcia in Section 16?

6. Why does the narrator write to Chid's family in Section 31?

7. Describe the narrator's first night, and impressions of, Bombay.

8. Why is the location of the narrator's first act of intimacy with Inder Lal significant?

9. Describe Harry's argument with Olivia in Section 22.

10. Describe the relationship between Inder Lal's mother and Ritu.

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