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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Aryan's gain by battling at the Narmada?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Success.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Wealth.

2. Why does Mr. Changla allow the elderly woman to stay?
(a) The weather is too bad.
(b) She will pay a lot.
(c) He thinks she's pretty.
(d) He wants to kidnap her.

3. What happened to the elderly woman's hometown?
(a) It was destroyed in a war.
(b) It became a cultural center.
(c) It turned into a factory town.
(d) It turned into a farm town.

4. What characterizes the town of Mahadeo?
(a) The live music.
(b) The crime.
(c) The temple.
(d) The market.

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

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

7. How does the elderly woman's daughter lose her baby?
(a) A boating accident.
(b) An illness.
(c) It was stolen.
(d) Grief.

8. Where is the elderly woman's daughter taken after she is kidnapped?
(a) China.
(b) Mumbai.
(c) Calcutta.
(d) The banks of the Narmada.

9. How does the elderly woman's daughter die?
(a) A mysterious disease.
(b) She drowns in the river.
(c) The bandits killed her.
(d) Her mother killed her.

10. Bandits believe that being stung by bees on the Narmada will give them _______.
(a) Wealth.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Clarity.
(d) Death.

11. Why has the elderly woman come to the guesthouse?
(a) To find her daughter.
(b) To deliver a letter to the narrator.
(c) To get something to eat.
(d) To stop and rest.

12. Why does the narrator take a day away from the guesthouse?
(a) Mr. Changla bothers him.
(b) His doctor told him to.
(c) He's become too set in his ways.
(d) There's too much drama.

13. The narrator's fascination with Mahadeo always ______ him.
(a) Delays.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Frustrates.
(d) Surprises.

14. In his story, Tariq Mia encounters a teacher and a _______ student.
(a) Boy.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Girl.
(d) Beautiful.

15. The father says he will set a date for the wedding when they perform on what night?
(a) Their engagement night.
(b) His birthday.
(c) The night of Shiva.
(d) Christmas Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What skills were courtesans supposed to teach noblemen?

2. Who created all art, in the father's opinion?

3. The woman claims her teacher is a ______.

4. What is the Naga Baba looking for?

5. Who is the woman's teacher?

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