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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Section 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator notice about the relationship between Ritu and Inder Lal's mother?
(a) Ritu is abused by her mother-in-law.
(b) Ritu is openly hostile to her mother-in-law.
(c) Ritu obeys her mother-in-law.
(d) Ritu dotes on her mother-in-law.

2. Who awakens the narrator by screaming in the courtyard on March 9th?
(a) Inder Lal's youngest child.
(b) A young girl she has never seen before.
(c) Inder Lal.
(d) Ritu.

3. What is a sadhu?
(a) An unforgivable sin.
(b) A blessing.
(c) A tomb painting.
(d) A holy man.

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

5. According to the narrator's first journal entry, where does she spend her first night in Bombay?
(a) With a woman she met on the trip over.
(b) In a missionary hostel.
(c) In a cheap hotel attached to a bar.
(d) In a doorway.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe her relationship with her grandfather?

2. Who does not agree that a suttee is a form of suicide?

3. Who says, at the Crawford's dinner party, that if a woman wants to throw her life away for her religion it is her choice?

4. What best describes the Nawab's palace during the narrator's first visit?

5. What paperwork does the narrator keep on her small desk in Part 1, Section 3?

(see the answer key)

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