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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 is Tariq Mia's pet name for the narrator?
(a) Funny Buddy.
(b) Cuz.
(c) Know-It-All.
(d) Little Brother.

2. Why is Nitin amused by the tea estate?
(a) It looked like a fairy tale.
(b) The people were very intelligent.
(c) It looked like a British fantasy of India.
(d) It was so poorly run.

3. Why does the monk's father regret letting his son live in the West?
(a) It made him too intelligent.
(b) It made him selfish.
(c) It destroyed his peace of mind.
(d) It distanced him from the family.

4. Who is charged with Imrat's murder?
(a) Master Mohan.
(b) The musicians.
(c) Master Mohan's wife.
(d) Imrat's classmate.

5. How is Nitin protected from the struggles in India?
(a) He fled the country.
(b) His luxurious life.
(c) He never left the house.
(d) He was completely oblivious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What about Rima's marriage distresses Nitin?

3. The narrator enjoys Tariq Mia's song until he realizes how _______ the lyrics are.

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

5. What religion is Tariq Mia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Does Nitin live a charmed life before he moves to the tea estate?

3. Are any of the daughter's shortcomings correctable?

4. In Chapter 11, who is the narrator primarily concerned for?

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

6. Why is Master Mohan's wife so bitter?

7. Why is the elderly woman's daughter kidnapped?

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

9. Why is Nitin in the hospital?

10. What is India's perception of the West? The West of India?

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