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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must the daughter purify herself in the river?
(a) To get rid of desire.
(b) To separate herself from her father.
(c) To become baptized.
(d) To get rid of a demon.

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

3. What can the Vano Village Deity cure?
(a) Depression.
(b) Madness.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Cancer.

4. What about Rima's marriage distresses Nitin?
(a) She is unfaithful.
(b) Her husband is poor.
(c) She loves her husband too much.
(d) Her husband is abusive.

5. The narrator doesn't understand how a ___ could drive Nitin insane.
(a) Fruit.
(b) Blizzard.
(c) Story.
(d) Woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time has passed between the end of Chapter 5 and Chapter 6?

2. What is the Jain monk's real name?

3. Where must Nitin submerge the figure?

4. Why does the narrator take a day away from the guesthouse?

5. Why is the narrator surprised that Uma and the Naga Baba parted ways?

(see the answer key)

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