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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the narrator and Inder Lal do together in Section 25?
2. How does the Nawab die?
3. How does Olivia feel about the fact that she is not yet pregnant in Section 22?
4. What does the narrator do when she first wonders if the beggar woman she sees in Section 23 is dead?
5. Describe Chid's health upon his August 15th return.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The amount of freedom and choice varies greatly among the characters in Heat and Dust. Compare and contrast how each set of characters below is trapped by, wastes or uses their given freedom in the story.
1) Douglas and the Nawab.
2) Olivia and the Narrator.
3) Chid and Ritu.
Essay Topic 2
Do the characters in Heat and Dust create their own destinies, or has life thrust circumstances upon them? Analyze this question for any 3 characters in the story. Be sure to select at least one character from Olivia's time and one from the minor time. Consider expectations, behavior, circumstances and attitudes.
Essay Topic 3
Inder Lal, the narrator, Olivia and the Nawab all carry on affairs while married or with someone who is married.
1)Is any one of these deceptions more acceptable than the others? For instance, is it more okay for the narrator to have the affair than Inder Lal because she is unmarried?
2) How does the act of deception affect the character's future in the story?
3) What other acts of deception occur in the novel, and how do they impact the characters involved?
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