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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Ritu sent on a pilgrimage?
(a) To represent the village.
(b) To heal a sick child.
(c) To heal her ailments.
(d) To pray for rain.

2. What does the palace watchman give to the narrator?
(a) A key.
(b) The rupees she drops on the way in.
(c) Mango leaves.
(d) Rock sugar and flower petals.

3. What happens when Ritu visits the narrator in her room after she tries unsuccessfully to throw Chid out of her room?
(a) Ritus starts chanting with Chid.
(b) Ritu curls up in a corner and starts shrieking.
(c) Ritu and Chid fight.
(d) Chid seems to calm Ritu.

4. Who befriends the narrator and gets her good deals at the bazaar in Section 11?
(a) The tall woman who sells fruit.
(b) Inder Lal's mother.
(c) Ritu.
(d) Inder Lal.

5. 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 takes on a peace it did not have before.
(d) It is full of silent tension.

6. How does the narrator describe her relationship with her grandfather?
(a) They disliked each other.
(b) She never met him.
(c) They were very close.
(d) She hardly remembers him.

7. Why does Inder Lal tell the narrator that his mother selected Ritu as his wife?
(a) She has all her teeth.
(b) She can read and write.
(c) She brought a good dowry.
(d) She is uneducated.

8. What prompts the narrator to investigate the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) A loud groaning.
(b) A symbol she sees on the outside of the tomb.
(c) Something she read at the library.
(d) Something in Olivia's letters.

9. Who tells the narrator that nothing human is important in India?
(a) Marcia.
(b) A missionary.
(c) The hotel owner.
(d) Tessie.

10. Who decides that Ritu will go on a pilgrimage?
(a) Ritu.
(b) Inder Lal.
(c) The village women.
(d) Chid.

11. Why does Harry tell the narrator and Mrs. Crawford that he has only been to the Nawab's mountain chalet once?
(a) He was forbidden to return after that first visit.
(b) It holds bitter memories for the Nawab.
(c) The Begum doesn't like it.
(d) The fire made it unlivable.

12. What does the narrator receive from Chid in Section 21?
(a) Money.
(b) A robe.
(c) A plant.
(d) Letters.

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

14. 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?
(a) Major Minnies.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Olivia.
(d) Mrs. Saunders.

15. What does Maji say will happen after the pilgrimage party reaches the tree line of the mountain base?
(a) Ritu's healing will begin.
(b) Some will faint with joy.
(c) Ritu will proceed on her own.
(d) They will do a dance to thank the good spirits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between Tessie and Beth?

2. Why is Mrs. Saunders ill when Olivia first meets her?

3. Who volunteers to take the narrator to the Nawab's palace in Khatm for the first time?

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

5. What is a sadhu?

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