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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 weather in Section 23?
(a) Constant rains make the streets too muddy to walk in.
(b) The heat remains stifling.
(c) The heat has subsided and monsoon season has begun.
(d) There are blue skies and no signs of rain.

2. Who does the narrator learn is pregnant on July 31st?
(a) Ritu.
(b) Maji.
(c) Inder Lal's niece.
(d) Herself.

3. What does the narrator compare Maji to in her August 31st journal entry?
(a) A desert flower.
(b) A Hindu God.
(c) A bitter, but healing, medicine.
(d) A loving mother.

4. How are Satipur and Ktahm described in Section 34?
(a) Slummy.
(b) Bustling.
(c) Stuffy.
(d) Crowded.

5. What does Maji say about the narrator's plans in the last section of the story?
(a) She disapproves and wants the narrator to change her mind.
(b) She approves and gives the narrator a gift to help her.
(c) She disapproves, but says we create our own misery.
(d) She approves, but says the weather is not good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Nawab joke about on the day that he and Olivia make love for the first time?

2. How does the narrator feel about her pregnancy when she visits Maji's hut?

3. What is true of Maji?

4. Where do Olivia and the Nawab first become lovers?

5. What does the narrator say that Douglas's only son becomes when he grows up?

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