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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is special about the placement of the guesthouse on the banks of the Narmada River?
(a) It's inexpensive real estate.
(b) It's known for it's nice smell.
(c) It's a religious pilgrimage site.
(d) It's where the narrator was born.

2. Who is charged with Imrat's murder?
(a) Imrat's classmate.
(b) The musicians.
(c) Master Mohan.
(d) Master Mohan's wife.

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

4. Bandits believe that being stung by bees on the Narmada will give them _______.
(a) Death.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Clarity.

5. Why isn't Master Mohan respected?
(a) He is a criminal.
(b) His family is rude.
(c) He has a disease.
(d) His family was poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. If Master Mohan had the title _______, he would be more respected.

2. When the power comes back in the guesthouse, what is the narrator able to do again?

3. What is Tariq Mia's purpose in telling this story?

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

5. Why does the Jain monk clear the bugs off the boulder?

(see the answer key)

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