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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Samadhi?
(a) The connection between a mother and her unborn child.
(b) A glimpse of the future.
(c) A higher state of consciousness.
(d) A body of water created by a monsoon.

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

5. How does the narrator feel about her pregnancy when she visits Maji's hut?
(a) She ends up in a state of rapture.
(b) She wants to share it with Inder Lal.
(c) She is desperate to end it.
(d) She is uncertain about it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator tell Inder Lal about her pregnancy upon Chid's return?

4. Where does Olivia live after leaving Douglas?

5. What is true of Maji?

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