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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9 Section 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Chid recover from his fever?
(a) In the suttee shrine.
(b) In the royal tomb.
(c) In Inder Lal's home.
(d) In the narrator's room.

3. What else do Olivia and the Nawab do together on the day they first make love?
(a) Tie red strings and make wishes.
(b) Discuss naming the baby.
(c) Read poems to each other.
(d) Pick mangoes and feed each other.

4. Where do Olivia and the Nawab first become lovers?
(a) In his private quarters at the palace.
(b) In the palace garden.
(c) In Olivia and Douglas's room.
(d) In the grove by Baba Firdau's shrine.

5. What happens when Olivia plays the piano for the Nawab?
(a) He breaks down in tears.
(b) He sits down at the other piano and plays.
(c) He starts to sing.
(d) He loses interest and leaves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Maji say will happen after the pilgrimage party reaches the tree line of the mountain base?

3. What does the narrator think about Karim living in India?

4. Why does the narrator say she buys Indian clothing after settling into her new place in Satipur?

5. What does the Nawab joke about on the day that he and Olivia make love for the first time?

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