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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 arrest the narrator.
(d) To look for a criminal.

2. In order to become a Naga, one must ______.
(a) Exploit.
(b) Pray.
(c) Sing.
(d) Endure.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 8, the narrator has finished reading ______.
(a) Buddhist mythology.
(b) A book on guesthouse management.
(c) Nitin's diary.
(d) The Bible.

4. How do we learn more about Nitin in Chapter 7?
(a) His diary.
(b) He tells his story to the narrator.
(c) His father writes the narrator a letter.
(d) Nitin talks in his sleep.

5. What does the narrator discuss with Dr. Mitra at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Dr. Mitra's family.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) The weather.
(d) Nitin's possession.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nitin create a new persona?

2. In Tariq Mia's opinion, what does the narrator not know enough about?

3. The father says he will die happy if he could sing like _______.

4. In the monk's story, when his chariot is being swarmed, what is the fear in his father's eyes?

5. Why do the Jain monks shave their heads?

(see the answer key)

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