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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the doctor at the hospital ward say is wrong with Chid?
2. Who does the narrator believe is the father of the pregnant person she learns about on July 31st?
3. What is different about Chid when he returns on August 15th?
4. How do the midwives perform Olivia's abortion?
5. Where does the narrator plan to go in Section 36?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The relationships explored in Heat and Dust span generations, cultures and bloodlines. Of course, the connection between Olivia and the narrator is intriguing as they are not related by blood, and will never meet, yet Olivia's life is having a strong impact on the narrator's. Analyze the following aspects of this unique relationship.
1) Is Olivia a good person? Is the narrator?
2) Is it disloyal of the narrator to give so much attention and energy to the woman who betrayed her grandfather?
3) How would the story be different if the narrator was able to meet Olivia?
Essay Topic 2
Select two characters from the story that have different perspectives of the same event. Write two letters, one from each character addressed to the other, describing their event and what happened. For example, you might use Douglas and the Nawab's account of Olivia's pregnancy, Chid and Inder Lal's perceptions of the narrator's journey, or Dr. Saunders' and the Begum's perception of Olivia's abortion.
Essay Topic 3
Heat and Dust is told from the narrator's first person journal entries and from Olivia's first person accounts in her letters to Marcia.
1) What is gained and lost from the author's use of this perspective for the story?
2) Who else could have told this story and what would the impact of their different viewpoint be?
3) If the narrator did not have Olivia's letters, but had heard of her story through oral accounts, how might the story change?
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