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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 3-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Carnehan and Dravot promise to avoid in the pursuit of their kingdom?
(a) Women and government spies.
(b) Liquor and gambling.
(c) Gambling and revealing their identities.
(d) Liquor and women.

2. How many months of the year did the narrator say newspaper offices are often empty?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. Most of the newspaper was what, according to the narrator?
(a) Lies.
(b) Blank.
(c) In English.
(d) In Sanskrit.

4. What type of people were described as using the "Grand Trunk Road" (11)?
(a) Ruffians.
(b) Kings.
(c) Scholars.
(d) Merchants.

5. What is the meaning of the phrase, "kaa-pi chayha-yeh" (12)?
(a) Copy wanted.
(b) For sale.
(c) Charity case.
(d) Help wanted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of water did the Intermediate travelers drink?

2. The men who stood in the narrator's way said they had been sleeping in what location?

3. The narrator states on the first page of the story that he feared that his "King" (3) had met what fate?

4. The passenger who joined the narrator was said to have "an educated taste for" (4) what?

5. What did Carnehan initially ask of the narrator?

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