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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 one of the languages that Serang Ali speaks?
(a) Bengali.
(b) Turkish.
(c) English.
(d) Chinese.

2. Where are the girmitiyas being taken in Chapter 4?
(a) Bengal.
(b) Mareech.
(c) Agra.
(d) Delhi.

3. In Chapter 8, where are the dry docks where the Ibis is to be repaired and refurbished?
(a) Surinaam Ghat.
(b) Kanchantala.
(c) Naba Graha Mandir.
(d) Kidderpore.

4. How many days after Deeti brings her husband home from the factory does he die?
(a) 34.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 45.

5. What jewelry had Deeti been wearing when she was lead to the funeral pyre?
(a) Silver anklet.
(b) Silver earrings.
(c) Silver nose-ring.
(d) Silver bracelet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, how much opium does Deeti allow her husband?

2. How much is the opium worth that is stored in the warehouses at the factory?

3. In Chapter 7, what color does Baboo Nob Kissin daydream of the color of a spire will be for a temple he wants to build?

4. Where did Babloo-tindal get the scars he bears?

5. In Chapter 5 after going through the mixing room, where does Deeti rest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where would Paulette have been sent if Benjamin Burnham had not taken her in?

2. In Chapter 5, why does Neel say that he cannot sell the zemindary of Raskhali?

3. How did the Halders get in debt with the Burnhams?

4. What is the water closet like in Paulette's room at the Burnham mansion, and what is it lacking?

5. Where does Deeti send Kabutri and why?

6. In Chapter 8, what happens after the lascars are paid?

7. What jobs did Nob Kissin have when he began to work in Chapter 7?

8. What are grimitiyas?

9. What type of boat does Jodu have in Chapter 3?

10. Why does everyone sneeze when they come on the grounds of the opium factory's main compound?

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