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

2. Who is the recipient of Olivia's letters that are in the narrator's possession?
(a) Beth.
(b) Ritu.
(c) Mrs. Saunders.
(d) Marcia.

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

4. How does the narrator describe her relationship with her grandfather?
(a) They were very close.
(b) She never met him.
(c) She hardly remembers him.
(d) They disliked each other.

5. How does Chid explain Ritu's screams?
(a) He says this is the best path for her to find enlightenment.
(b) He says this is her punishment for her sins.
(c) He says she is being treated with red hot irons on her hands and feet.
(d) He says she is being treated by special infusions of a certain drug.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Chid?

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

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

4. What happens when Olivia plays the piano for the Nawab?

5. How does the narrator describe Baba Firdau's shrine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is Chid a tolerant person?

4. How does Harry's reluctance to bring Olivia to the palace forecast events to come?

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

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

7. Do you think Chid is a sadhu?

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

9. Describe the beggar the narrator notices and helps in Section 23.

10. What does Inder Lal think of India?

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