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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator suggested that Carnehan and Dravot take what action before they enacting their plan?
(a) Eat.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Learn how to shoot.
(d) Draw up blueprints.

2. What object of Dravot's was filling "half the room" (15) in the newspaper office?
(a) His ego.
(b) His stein.
(c) His beard.
(d) His luggage.

3. What kind of water did the Intermediate travelers drink?
(a) Contaminated.
(b) Roadside.
(c) Potable.
(d) Brackish.

4. What time did Dravot and Carnehan name when they told the narrator they would see themselves out?
(a) 6 hours hence.
(b) 4 hours hence.
(c) 30 minutes hence.
(d) 2 hours hence.

5. The men who stood in the narrator's way said they had been sleeping in what location?
(a) In a carriage.
(b) In a hostel.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) In a ditch.

6. Before leaving Dravot and Carnehan alone, the narrator told them to leave by what time?
(a) 9 p.m.
(b) 3 p.m.
(c) 7 p.m.
(d) Midnight.

7. What type of politics did the narrator and his new acquaintance discuss on the train?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Loaferdom.

8. How many men stood in the narrator's way when he moved to leave the newspaper office?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

9. What objects of Carnehan's were filling "half the room" (15) in the newspaper office?
(a) His shoulders.
(b) His scruples.
(c) His sideburns.
(d) His biceps.

10. The narrator was on a train traveling to what location?
(a) Delhi.
(b) Bombay.
(c) Ajmir.
(d) Mhow.

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

12. Before leaving Dravot and Carnehan alone, the narrator told them not to take what action?
(a) Fall asleep.
(b) Burn down the bar.
(c) Get discouraged.
(d) Set the office on fire.

13. Where did the narrator go after he disembarked from the train?
(a) A saloon.
(b) A tea house.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A newspaper office.

14. To what location was the narrator traveling?
(a) To the Indian Desert.
(b) To the Mojave Desert.
(c) To the Sahara Desert.
(d) To the Gobi Desert.

15. The narrator told his new acquaintance on the train that he would be getting back on the train within how many days?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of people were described as using the "Grand Trunk Road" (11)?

3. Who was said to be "calling down brimstone upon the British Dominions" (11)?

4. What did Carnehan initially ask of the narrator?

5. The narrator told Darvot and Carnehan that the country to which the two men were headed was full of what kind of people?

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