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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Nitin amused by the tea estate?
(a) It was so poorly run.
(b) It looked like a British fantasy of India.
(c) The people were very intelligent.
(d) It looked like a fairy tale.

2. Mr. Changla explains that Nitin's denial of _____ is what lead to his insanity.
(a) Desire.
(b) Death.
(c) Status.
(d) Intelligence.

3. What does the narrator stop to watch on his way home?
(a) Vano Village women.
(b) The Narmada's waves.
(c) A woman waiting at the bus stop.
(d) Children playing stickball.

4. At the dance academy, what are the girls' dances supposed to convey?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Men.
(c) Birds.
(d) Trees.

5. Why does the narrator encourage the woman and her daughter to leave?
(a) He doesn't like women.
(b) They're stealing from the guesthouse.
(c) They're too loud.
(d) The bandits may come looking for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Aryan's gain by battling at the Narmada?

2. Where does Tariq Mia's curiosity lead him?

3. Why must Nitin make a clay figure of the goddess and submerge it?

4. What skills were courtesans supposed to teach noblemen?

5. How has Nitin's presence disrupted the narrator's life?

(see the answer key)

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