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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. How has Nitin's presence disrupted the narrator's life?
(a) He has loud parties.
(b) He talks too much.
(c) He's always worrying about him.
(d) He makes the narrator feel inadequate.

2. Why is Imrat killed?
(a) Because he was a thief.
(b) So no one else could enjoy his music.
(c) Because he had a terrible voice.
(d) So he wouldn't talk to the police.

3. Why does Nitin bring books to the tea estate?
(a) To pass the time.
(b) To educate the workers.
(c) To use as table space.
(d) To look like a scholar.

4. No longer interested in women, Nitin is interested in _____.
(a) Nature.
(b) Books.
(c) The stars.
(d) Men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes possession, in the doctor's opinion?

2. The Jain monk observes that although his father gives to charity, he doesn't ______ poverty.

3. What is the narrator's primary anxiety about Nitin?

4. When Tariq Mia teases the narrator, he often is suggesting that the narrator is _______.

5. How much does the Jain monk's father have to pay for his son to renounce the world?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the narrator's primary concern in Chapter 8?

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

6. Why is "endurance" a necessary part of a pilgrimage to the Narmada?

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

8. Why is the Jain monk's only love the human heart?

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

10. What is the narrator's dilemma with bringing Nitin back to the guesthouse after he's released from the hospital.

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