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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5 Section 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes the narrator's room when both Chid and Ritu are in it?
(a) It becomes a friendly haven for all three of them.
(b) It sounds like a religious war.
(c) It is full of silent tension.
(d) It takes on a peace it did not have before.

2. Where is Baba Firdau's shrine?
(a) On palace grounds.
(b) In Satipur.
(c) In Khatm.
(d) Next to the suttee shrine.

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

4. What is the narrator called in Part 1 Section 4?
(a) Begum.
(b) Sass.
(c) Hirja.
(d) Nawab.

5. Why is the person the narrator discovers inside the royal tomb there, in Section 13?
(a) The person is hiding.
(b) The person is sick with fever.
(c) The person is being held prisoner.
(d) The person is praying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?

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

3. Who visits Olivia four days after she and Douglas attend their first dinner party at the palace?

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

5. What does Chid do when someone gives him a guava or a banana?

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