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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the police come to the guesthouse?
(a) To bring the narrator to the hospital.
(b) To tell the narrator his friend has died.
(c) To look for a criminal.
(d) To arrest the narrator.

2. Who kidnaps the elderly woman's daughter?
(a) A bandit.
(b) A government official.
(c) Her father.
(d) Another courtesan.

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

4. Why does Nitin bring books to the tea estate?
(a) To educate the workers.
(b) To use as table space.
(c) To pass the time.
(d) To look like a scholar.

5. When Tariq Mia teases the narrator, he often is suggesting that the narrator is _______.
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Pretentious.
(c) Naïve.
(d) Brilliant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the elderly woman from?

2. What does the narrator discuss with Dr. Mitra at the beginning of Chapter 9?

3. What does the teacher teach?

4. What does the narrator stop to watch on his way home?

5. What has the poet Kabir offered to Indian religions?

(see the answer key)

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