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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the river offer to the narrator?
(a) Eternal life.
(b) A place to bathe.
(c) Good company.
(d) His object of reflection.

2. What has the poet Kabir offered to Indian religions?
(a) Offers a single religious text.
(b) Created an alternative to religion.
(c) Created Hinduism.
(d) United Hinduism and Islam.

3. Why do the Jain monks shave their heads?
(a) To avoid lice.
(b) To look alike.
(c) To stay cool.
(d) To avoid human vanity.

4. What kind of family is Nitin's family from?
(a) A poor family.
(b) He has no family.
(c) A wealthy family.
(d) A mobster family.

5. According to the Jain monk, ritual means nothing if you don't do what?
(a) Follow religious teachings precisely.
(b) Believe in the cause.
(c) Know the longing that precedes it.
(d) Follow it diligently.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is special about Imrat?

2. Why does the woman try to give her brother away?

3. As the narrator looks at the river one morning, who does the narrator imagine he may see floating in it one day?

4. Why should the sisters not walk alone?

5. What does Tariq Mia explain is the Jain monk's only love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the legend of the battle at the Narmada riverbank?

2. Why is the narrator hesitant to allow the elderly woman to stay at the guesthouse? What does her situation resemble?

3. Why is Master Mohan not well respected?

4. Why does the Great Sahib kill Imrat?

5. What are the requirements of being a Jain monk?

6. Are the father's teachings nonsensical?

7. What parallels can you draw between the woman in the market and Imrat?

8. How is our narrator similar to the Jain monk? What is he lacking to be truly like him?

9. What is the Vano ritual of purging a possession and how does it work?

10. Is the narrator being very egotistical at the beginning of Chapter 14?

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