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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who is trying to blackmail Adela Quested tell her?

2. Where is Mau?

3. With what does Adela Quested want Cyril Fielding to help her?

4. What does Cyril Fielding find out from Dr. Aziz regarding Mrs. Moore?

5. Who opens the court case with "everyone knows the man's guilty"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Dr. Aziz released?

2. What does the servant approach Adela Quested with when she is leaving?

3. Why are Adela Quested's arrangements of where to stay after the trial ends an issue?

4. What do the postcards that Cyril Fielding writes to his Indian friends signify?

5. Describe Dr. Aziz's response to Cyril Fielding's attempts to be polite when they run into each other on a walk in Mau.

6. How does Adela Quested justify her original accusation against Dr. Aziz?

7. Describe a similarity between Nawab Bahudar and Cyril Fielding.

8. What does Dr. Aziz discover about Cyril Fielding's marital status in Part 3, Chapter 35?

9. Why can't Adela Quested leave the college?

10. What does Professor Godbole conclude about Mrs. Moore?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Often in novels, authors use one or more characters to argue their own viewpoints. Research Forster's own viewpoints. What character or set of characters do you think that Forster is using to communicate his own viewpoints? Is there a specific character that can be defined as Forster?

Essay Topic 2

At one point in the book Fielding claims, "I travel light." Does Fielding travel as light as he claims? What attachments does he have to the people and places around him that might affect his ability to "travel light"?

Essay Topic 3

Aziz shows Fielding a photograph of his wife, going against the Muslim tradition of "purdah" in which a woman cannot show her face to men outside of her family. Why does Aziz choose to show Fielding this picture? How is this significant?

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