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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sounds did the father use to teach his daughter music?
(a) Drums.
(b) Water.
(c) Machines.
(d) Birds.

2. Why is Nitin Bose coming to the guesthouse?
(a) To find a wife.
(b) To learn tribal customs.
(c) To work.
(d) To run away from the police.

3. What happens to the forest in the elderly woman's hometown?
(a) It became inhabited by ghosts.
(b) It was cut down.
(c) It became a national park.
(d) It became a wildlife preserve.

4. What skills were courtesans supposed to teach noblemen?
(a) Song and dance.
(b) Tipping 20%.
(c) Paying compliments.
(d) Auto repair.

5. Why does the man decide not to marry the daughter?
(a) The father said he didn't have to.
(b) Her mother is crazy.
(c) She has a terrible voice.
(d) He is engaged to someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the narrator take Nitin back to the guesthouse?

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

3. At the dance academy, what are the girls' dances supposed to convey?

4. The narrator doesn't understand how a ___ could drive Nitin insane.

5. Who created all art, in the father's opinion?

(see the answer key)

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