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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Karim and his friends think about the narrator's plans to visit India?
(a) That she will find the answers she is seeking.
(b) That a Westerner won't last for a month.
(c) That modern India is an impossible place to live.
(d) That she will fit in effortlessly.

3. Who volunteers to take the narrator to the Nawab's palace in Khatm for the first time?
(a) Mr. Crawford.
(b) Harry.
(c) Douglas.
(d) Inder Lal.

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

5. Who gives Olivia's letters to Marcia?
(a) Douglas.
(b) An anonymous source.
(c) Beth.
(d) Harry.

6. 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) Ritu will proceed on her own.
(c) They will do a dance to thank the good spirits.
(d) Some will faint with joy.

7. Who does the narrator discover when she investigates the royal tomb on March 30th?
(a) Ritu.
(b) The angry English woman she met at the British bungalow.
(c) Inder Lal.
(d) Chid.

8. What does the narrator say she learns about the house where Olivia and Douglas used to live in the February 16th journal entry?
(a) It is condemned.
(b) It is for sale.
(c) It houses a post office substation.
(d) It has been torn down.

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

10. How long does Maji say it will take Ritu to reach the destination on the pilgrimage?
(a) Weeks and months of traveling.
(b) A year and a day.
(c) A matter of days.
(d) 42 days.

11. Why was Baba Firdau's shrine built?
(a) To honor the Nawab's great grandmother.
(b) To honor one who gave shelter to an ancestor of the Nawab.
(c) To bless the harvest.
(d) To grant fertility to the Nawab and his wife.

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

13. 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 in Olivia's letters.
(d) Something she read at the library.

14. How does Chid explain Ritu's screams?
(a) He says she is being treated by special infusions of a certain drug.
(b) He says this is her punishment for her sins.
(c) He says this is the best path for her to find enlightenment.
(d) He says she is being treated with red hot irons on her hands and feet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Inder Lal say about his belief in evil spirits?

2. Why is Ritu sent on a pilgrimage?

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

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

5. Who decides that Ritu will go on a pilgrimage?

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