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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's primary anxiety about Nitin?
(a) His safety.
(b) His faith.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His health.

2. Why is Nitin Bose in the hospital?
(a) He was attacked.
(b) He has a terrible disease.
(c) He tried to kill himself.
(d) His father is sick.

3. In the monk's story, when his chariot is being swarmed, what is the fear in his father's eyes?
(a) Separation.
(b) Violence.
(c) Falling.
(d) Death.

4. What is the benefit of Nitin going to Vano Village?
(a) He can be cured.
(b) The food is good.
(c) He wants to live there.
(d) The weather is nice.

5. Why is Nitin looking for the shrine in the woods?
(a) It cures possession.
(b) It brings good luck.
(c) It gives fertility.
(d) It's made out of gold.

6. Why won't the narrator go into the caves?
(a) They're haunted.
(b) There are snakes.
(c) They're private property.
(d) He's afraid of the dark.

7. Kama is the god of ______.
(a) Water.
(b) War.
(c) Splendor.
(d) Love.

8. What does Tariq Mia explain is the Jain monk's only love?
(a) His mother.
(b) Books.
(c) Food.
(d) The human heart.

9. Why is Master Mohan's wife enraged by Imrat's recording contract?
(a) She doesn't like his music.
(b) She is scared for his safety.
(c) She feels she deserved it.
(d) She doesn't get any money.

10. What is special about Imrat?
(a) He performs magic tricks.
(b) He has a beautiful singing voice.
(c) He is very handsome.
(d) He is an excellent thief.

11. How does Master Mohan kill himself?
(a) Threw himself in front of a train.
(b) Jumped into the river.
(c) Offered himself as a sacrifice.
(d) Poisoned himself.

12. How much time has passed between the end of Chapter 5 and Chapter 6?
(a) A week.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 1 month.
(d) A year.

13. According to the monk's father, what do people from the West see of India?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Culture.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Beauty.

14. Nitin was offered two jobs: managing a tea estate or _______.
(a) An executive training course.
(b) CEO of a company.
(c) A government position.
(d) A business adviser.

15. Who does Nitin become while managing the tea estate?
(a) An overly controlling boss.
(b) His fake persona.
(c) A tea estate worker.
(d) A woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is Nitin protected from the struggles in India?

3. What religion is Tariq Mia?

4. What is special about the placement of the guesthouse on the banks of the Narmada River?

5. Why does the Jain monk clear the bugs off the boulder?

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