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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is true of Maji?
(a) She wants a child.
(b) She once lost a 5-year-old child.
(c) She dislikes Ritu.
(d) She has worked as a midwife.

3. Who does the Nawab have a meeting with on the day that Olivia tells him that she is pregnant?
(a) Major Minnies.
(b) The Begum's adviser.
(c) Douglas.
(d) Mr. Crawford.

4. In whose arms does the old beggar woman die?
(a) The narrator's.
(b) Maji's.
(c) Inder Lal's mother's.
(d) Ruti's.

5. Why, in Section 24, does Olivia cease to hurry home after her visits to the palace?
(a) Douglas goes to a men's club after work.
(b) Douglas keeps longer hours at the office.
(c) Douglas goes to the pub after work.
(d) Douglas believes she is visiting the library.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator plan to go in Section 36?

2. What does the narrator do when she first wonders if the beggar woman she sees in Section 23 is dead?

3. Where does the narrator go on her way to the bazaar on August 31st?

4. Who warns Olivia that "they" only want to "you-know-what with a white woman"?

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

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