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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 25, what do Inder Lal and the narrator do with the red strings?
(a) Tie them to the lattice and make wishes.
(b) Offer them to the healer.
(c) Tie them to the tree in the grove.
(d) Tie them in the narrator's hair.

2. Why is the beggar woman who the narrator brings to the hospital living on the streets?
(a) Her husband divorced her and kicked her out of the home.
(b) She was evicted by her family after her husband died.
(c) She has no remaining relatives.
(d) No one knows where she comes from.

3. Why does the narrator say she is anxious for the seasons to change at the end of the story?
(a) To grow some food.
(b) To start a new chapter in her life.
(c) To begin climbing.
(d) To have her child.

4. What does Olivia request to occur after her death?
(a) That the Nawab donate her piano.
(b) That her body be returned to England.
(c) That her body be buried with Douglas.
(d) That her ashes be scattered on the mountainside.

5. Who offers to perform an abortion for the pregnant person on July 31st?
(a) Chid.
(b) Maji.
(c) Ritu.
(d) Inder Lal's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Harry tell Olivia that the Nawab handles questions he does not wish to answer?

2. Who interrupts Olivia's abortion?

3. What does the narrator reveal about Douglas' children in her August 20th journal entry?

4. Who does the Nawab have a meeting with on the day that Olivia tells him that she is pregnant?

5. With whom does Olivia spend her Sundays?

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