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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Nitin's presence disrupted the narrator's life?
(a) He's always worrying about him.
(b) He makes the narrator feel inadequate.
(c) He has loud parties.
(d) He talks too much.

2. What do the Aryan's gain by battling at the Narmada?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Success.
(d) Wealth.

3. To the narrator and to others, the Narmada is a _______ river.
(a) Cleansing.
(b) Evil.
(c) Useless.
(d) Puzzling.

4. According to the Jain monk, ritual means nothing if you don't do what?
(a) Follow religious teachings precisely.
(b) Believe in the cause.
(c) Know the longing that precedes it.
(d) Follow it diligently.

5. Today, where is the Aryan who slept on the riverbank?
(a) Under the water.
(b) Still there.
(c) Delhi.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the elderly woman come to the guesthouse?

2. What does the monk claim he will gain from enduring the trials of being a monk?

3. Why can't anyone accompany Nitin?

4. How does the narrator know it's Nitin who's in trouble?

5. Maser Mohan's wife is ______ towards him.

(see the answer key)

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