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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Durance say Indians cannot help doing?
(a) Gossiping.
(b) Giggling.
(c) Hating.
(d) Shouting.

2. What does Rajah say cars have to do to be cars?
(a) Have an owner.
(b) Have gas.
(c) Accelerate.
(d) Move.

3. Who does Flora say invited her to lunch?
(a) Gandhi.
(b) The Rajah.
(c) Durance.
(d) Das.

4. What disease does gin and tonic provide a vaccination against?
(a) Scurvy.
(b) HIV.
(c) Polio.
(d) Malaria.

5. What does Das say giving too much money to the boy could upset?
(a) His bank balance.
(b) The boy's parents.
(c) The boy's life goals.
(d) The economic balance.

6. Which character was killed in 1944?
(a) Flora.
(b) Durance.
(c) Das.
(d) The Rajah.

7. What event did the newspaper article in Das's trunk detail?
(a) Das's marriage.
(b) Das's meeting with Gandhi.
(c) Das's reward for his painting.
(d) Das's arrest.

8. Who does Dilip say beggars help?
(a) People who want to move to a better place in their lives.
(b) People who have never fallen in love.
(c) People who have too much money to spend.
(d) People who need to do something good for their soul.

9. What are the only paintings the Rajah refuses to show Flora?
(a) His religious paintings.
(b) His war paintings.
(c) His own paintings.
(d) His erotic paintings.

10. Who does Dilip say Flora could never have had a relationship with?
(a) E.M Forster.
(b) Durance.
(c) H. G Wells.
(d) Das.

11. What starts working while Das speaks to Flora about Indian art?
(a) A gas lamp.
(b) A radio.
(c) A television.
(d) An electric fan.

12. What does Dilip tell Pike is a way of life in India?
(a) Begging.
(b) Hating.
(c) Dying.
(d) Starving.

13. Who is waiting with Das when Flora arrives back from her meeting with the Rajah?
(a) Nazrul.
(b) Coomaraswami.
(c) Gandi,
(d) H.G. Wells.

14. What does Mrs. Swan say killed her husband?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A stroke.
(d) A seizure.

15. What is the name of the medicine that is in tonic water?
(a) Gulpine.
(b) Seroxat.
(c) Junine.
(d) Quinine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Das say the British have destroyed?

2. What does Pike refer to the Rajah as?

3. What famous person lived on Mrs. Swan's street?

4. What does the English couple say the Rajah of Jummapur collects?

5. Why does Flora say she came to India?

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