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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 10 Section 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chid explain Ritu's screams?
(a) He says she is being treated with red hot irons on her hands and feet.
(b) He says this is the best path for her to find enlightenment.
(c) He says this is her punishment for her sins.
(d) He says she is being treated by special infusions of a certain drug.

2. Where does the narrator first notice the beggar woman in Section 23?
(a) By the suttee shrine.
(b) Outside the house where Olivia used to live.
(c) At the place where she takes her clothes.
(d) At the bazaar where she buys her food.

3. How do the people at the hospital ward react to the narrator after she empties the bed pan of the man in the bed next to Chid?
(a) They act as if she is unclean.
(b) The women treat her kindly, but the men ignore her.
(c) The men treat her kindly, but the women talk behind her back.
(d) They treat her with more respect.

4. Who does the narrator discover when she investigates the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Inder Lal.
(b) Chid.
(c) Ritu.
(d) The angry English woman she met at the British bungalow.

5. Why does the narrator tell Inder Lal that she is in India (other than for Olivia's letters)?
(a) To escape the materialism of the West.
(b) To find herself.
(c) To build a future.
(d) To pursue a dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the religious significance of Baba Firdau's shrine?

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

3. What does Harry tell the narrator and Mrs. Crawford about his mother in Section 15?

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

5. How does Inder Lal react to Chid's reappearance in Section 28?

(see the answer key)

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