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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Section 9 | Part 3 Section 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes the Nawab's palace during the narrator's first visit?
(a) Gloomy and crumbling.
(b) Bustling with activity.
(c) Ornate and impressive.
(d) Practically empty.

2. What paperwork does the narrator keep on her small desk in Part 1, Section 3?
(a) Her journal, Tessie's diary and a Hindi grammar book.
(b) Olivia's letters, her journal and a guide to India.
(c) Olivia's letters, her journal and a Hindi grammar book.
(d) Olivia's letters and the map to the palace.

3. What does Chid wear?
(a) A soldier's uniform.
(b) A very worn straw farmer's hat.
(c) A beggar's badge.
(d) An orange Indian ascetic's robe.

4. What does Inder Lal's mother do to calm the screaming person in the courtyard the night of March 9th?
(a) Sprinkles rice and utters incantations.
(b) Slaps the person in the face.
(c) Sings and rocks the person back to sleep.
(d) Gives the person a ginger and honey tea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator called in Part 1 Section 4?

2. Where does the narrator say she is staying in her February 16th entry?

3. According to the narrator's first journal entry, where does she spend her first night in Bombay?

4. What do Olivia and Douglas argue about when the prince extends a second visit to the palace?

5. What does the narrator say she learns about the house where Olivia and Douglas used to live in the February 16th journal entry?

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