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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who warns Olivia that "they" only want to "you-know-what with a white woman"?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Mrs. Saunders.
(c) Major Saunders.
(d) Harry.

2. Where does the narrator take a room in the final chapter?
(a) In Maji's hut.
(b) In town X, in the Himalayas.
(c) In her grandmother's town.
(d) In the mountain house where Olivia last lived.

3. How long does the narrator intend to stay at her proposed destination at the end of the story?
(a) She doesn't know how long she will stay.
(b) Until her child is born.
(c) Until she receives the ticket back to England.
(d) Until the next monsoon season.

4. How does Olivia feel about the fact that she is not yet pregnant in Section 22?
(a) Concerned, because she is afraid there is something wrong with her.
(b) Disappointed, because she wants children.
(c) Relieved, as she wants to leave Douglas.
(d) Relieved; she never really wanted to have children.

5. What does the narrator say that Douglas's only son becomes when he grows up?
(a) A military soldier.
(b) An antique dealer.
(c) A sadhu.
(d) A British ambassador.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the doctor at the hospital ward respond to Chid and the narrator?

2. How do the people at the hospital ward react to the narrator after she empties the bed pan of the man in the bed next to Chid?

3. What is true of the schedule that Olivia and Douglas keep in Section 24?

4. Who tells the narrator the old beggar woman's name?

5. How does Olivia feel about her pregnancy in Section 32?

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