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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 Harry tell the narrator when she asks him for news on Khatm when he visits in Section 16?
(a) That she shouldn't ask so many questions.
(b) That he lives in the palace and nothing happens there.
(c) That Khatm should be burned to the ground.
(d) That his mother lives in Khatm.

2. Why is Mrs. Saunders ill when Olivia first meets her?
(a) She lost her husband.
(b) She lost a child.
(c) She has dysentery.
(d) She has malaria.

3. In whose arms does the old beggar woman die?
(a) The narrator's.
(b) Ruti's.
(c) Maji's.
(d) Inder Lal's mother's.

4. What is the Begum?
(a) The Nawab's mother.
(b) The Indian term for an English woman's gloves.
(c) A traditional Indian game.
(d) The tree outside of Mrs. Saunders' window.

5. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Something she read at the library.
(b) A loud groaning.
(c) Something in Olivia's letters.
(d) A symbol she sees on the outside of the tomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do when she first wonders if the beggar woman she sees in Section 23 is dead?

2. Why is the beggar woman who the narrator brings to the hospital living on the streets?

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

4. Why does Harry tell the narrator and Mrs. Crawford that he has only been to the Nawab's mountain chalet once?

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

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