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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Nitin's friends surprised that he took a job in the country?
(a) He liked the city and his social life.
(b) He doesn't know anything about tea.
(c) The women are very unattractive there.
(d) He has terrible allergies.

2. When the ugly daughter was a child, she was ______ of her father.
(a) In awe.
(b) Envious.
(c) Defiant.
(d) Judgmental.

3. Why does Tariq Mia begin to tell the narrator his story?
(a) So he will better understand the human heart.
(b) So he will appreciate nature.
(c) So he will take life less seriously.
(d) So he will understand true struggle.

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

5. Why must Nitin make a clay figure of the goddess and submerge it?
(a) To mark his defiance.
(b) To clean the figure.
(c) To exorcize himself.
(d) To start a new life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story is the woman going to tell the narrator?

2. From a young age, the monk's father taught him to be what?

3. As the narrator looks at the river one morning, who does the narrator imagine he may see floating in it one day?

4. The narrator took the job at the guesthouse after what event?

5. What season is it in Chapter 9?

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