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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 narrator stop to watch on his way home?
(a) Vano Village women.
(b) Children playing stickball.
(c) A woman waiting at the bus stop.
(d) The Narmada's waves.

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

3. The Jain monk observes that although his father gives to charity, he doesn't ______ poverty.
(a) Tolerate.
(b) Prevent.
(c) Understand.
(d) Sympathize with.

4. What is the doctor's diagnosis of Nitin?
(a) Nitin is crazy.
(b) Nitin has a rare disease.
(c) Nitin only thinks he's possessed.
(d) Nitin has a brain tumor.

5. What of the river's can the narrator hear at night?
(a) Its heartbeat.
(b) Its whisper.
(c) Its waves.
(d) Its fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nitin bring books to the tea estate?

2. What has the poet Kabir offered to Indian religions?

3. What does the monk claim he will gain from enduring the trials of being a monk?

4. Why does the narrator not know that Nitin has gone?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dr. Mitra think the narrator has contracted the "Indian disease" of making everything holy?

2. What is Tariq Mia's advice about "destiny" and how does it contradict to what the narrator has been told through the book?

3. What is the role of the Narmada river in Chapter 5?

4. What does the narrator believe the purpose or use of the Narmada is?

5. What is the cause of Nitin's insanity?

6. Why doesn't the narrator go near the caves again in Chapter 3?

7. What is the significance of the guns in Chapter 11?

8. What are the benefits of being a courtesan?

9. Why is Nitin an exception to Vano law?

10. In the doctor's opinion, is Nitin possessed and can he be cured?

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