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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of game do Flora and Das play at the table?
(a) A word game.
(b) A card game.
(c) A music game.
(d) A guessing game.

2. Who recommended India to Flora?
(a) Toby Goodwill.
(b) Joshua Chamberlain.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) H.G Wells.

3. What is the name of the book Pike is putting together about Flora?
(a) Collected Poems.
(b) Collected Letters.
(c) An English Heroine.
(d) An English Woman in India.

4. What does Anish ask to see?
(a) Flora's book collection.
(b) Flora's photographs.
(c) Flora's poetry.
(d) Flora's portrait.

5. Who is Anish sketching in this scene?
(a) Flora.
(b) Mrs. Swan.
(c) Das.
(d) Mr. Pike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Das say he had yesterday, but does not have today?

2. What does Flora do as Das sets up his painting gear?

3. What is Flora describing in the letter Pike and Mrs. Swan are reading?

4. Why does Das have to stop painting Flora?

5. How does Anish describe his painting?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Das and Flora indicate the beginnings of a sexual intimacy?

2. Why has Pike come to visit Mrs. Swan?

3. What does Flora tell Nell in the letter she narrates in Act 1, Scene 1?

4. What news does Flora learn about the Theosophical Society in Act 2, Part 4?

5. Describe Flora's first meeting with Mr. Commaraswami.

6. What is rasa?

7. What does Flora say she will never forgive herself for?

8. Why does Mrs. Swan cry about Flora?

9. What does Flora mean by the enemy?

10. What did Churchill say would happen if Britain lost India?

(see the answer keys)

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