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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Dr. Saunders express after learning about Olivia's induced "miscarriage"?
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. Where does the narrator take a room in the final chapter?
4. Where does the narrator go on her way to the bazaar on August 31st?
5. Who does the narrator learn is pregnant on July 31st?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Symbolism occurs in many forms in Heat and Dust. Select 3 symbolic items from the list below, or elsewhere in the story. Answer the questions that follow about those 3 items. Red strings, the piano, Olivia's letters, Chid's robe, the Nawab's palace, the Saunders' baby's grave, the grove, Baba Firdau's shrine, the royal tombs, Maji's hut.
1) Explain the significance this item has to the story and to specific characters.
2) Relate the symbolic item to the culture in which it exists.
3) Discuss what the story would lose without the inclusion of this symbolic item.
Essay Topic 2
In Heat and Dust, the narrator explores the life of a woman who lives in a different era, while living in a culture different from her own. Answer the following questions with these points in mind.
1) Is Ritu's treatment by her husband, mother-in-law and the narrator acceptable? Explain.
2) Why is Olivia's behavior so readily condemned by her English peers?
3) Explain why the old beggar woman who dies in Maji's arms is pivotal to the narrator's journey.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the roles of tradition and symbolism in Heat and Dust. Be sure to explain how the examples you give helped or hindered the people involved, why they chose to participate in acts or events, and why the symbols or symbolic acts or traditions were meaningful to the plot and storyline.
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