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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7 Section 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator do when she first wonders if the beggar woman she sees in Section 23 is dead?
(a) Immediately runs to her side.
(b) Decides it's not her problem and ignores her.
(c) Tells the laundry woman about her.
(d) Watches her for an hour.

2. According to Olivia's letters, where do Mrs. Crawford and Mrs. Minnies go together in 1923?
(a) France.
(b) Ktahm.
(c) Simla.
(d) England.

3. Why is the beggar woman who the narrator brings to the hospital living on the streets?
(a) She was evicted by her family after her husband died.
(b) She has no remaining relatives.
(c) No one knows where she comes from.
(d) Her husband divorced her and kicked her out of the home.

4. What happens when Olivia plays the piano for the Nawab?
(a) He starts to sing.
(b) He breaks down in tears.
(c) He sits down at the other piano and plays.
(d) He loses interest and leaves.

5. Where does the Nawab keep his pianos?
(a) In the Grand Hall.
(b) In his private quarters.
(c) At the end of a log maze of halls and rooms.
(d) In a beautiful conservatory with glass windows overlooking the garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator first notice the beggar woman in Section 23?

2. Why is the person the narrator discovers inside the royal tomb there, in Section 13?

3. What is noticeable about the beggar woman that the narrator notices and ends up helping?

4. Who says she came to India to find peace, but only got dysentery?

5. Describe the pianos that the Nawab shows to Olivia.

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