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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two - Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who bursts into the Christian Fellowship Banquet uninvited?
(a) Charlie Wu.
(b) Isabel Wu and her daughters.
(c) Astrid's mother.
(d) Rosalind Fung.

2. Who is Kitty Bing?
(a) A friend of Astrid's.
(b) She is the wife of Jack Bing, the second richest man in the world.
(c) She is a Hollywood actress.
(d) One of Su Yi's granddaughters.

3. What symbolic figure appears in both of Su Yi's dreams?
(a) A priest.
(b) A prince.
(c) An empress.
(d) A fruit tree.

4. Why was Su Yi's father angry at her?
(a) She refused to return to Singapore.
(b) She left her brother in India.
(c) Because she returned to Singapore.
(d) She married Jirasit.

5. Su Yi dreams she is in India. What is she doing?
(a) She meets a young priest buying candles for a Catholic church.
(b) Su Yi visits a sacred shrine.
(c) She is trying to get back to Singapore.
(d) She is walking through the streets of Bombay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Charlie give Astrid?

2. What purpose does Part Two serve in the novel?

3. Why did Alfred Shang need to contact his physician?

4. Why is Eleanor disgusted by the badminton party at Tyersall Park?

5. What is the narrator's point of view?

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