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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Inder Lal react to Chid's reappearance in Section 28?
(a) He is angry at Chid for returning.
(b) He is initially shy in Chid's presence.
(c) He is jealous of the time Chid spends with the narrator.
(d) He receives him like a long lost brother.
2. What does the narrator compare Maji to in her August 31st journal entry?
(a) A Hindu God.
(b) A desert flower.
(c) A bitter, but healing, medicine.
(d) A loving mother.
3. Where is Chid at the end of Section 30?
(a) He has left, but no one knows where he is.
(b) In the hospital ward.
(c) He is back at the narrator's room.
(d) Dead, and his body awaits cremation.
4. In Section 25, what do Inder Lal and the narrator do with the red strings?
(a) Tie them in the narrator's hair.
(b) Offer them to the healer.
(c) Tie them to the lattice and make wishes.
(d) Tie them to the tree in the grove.
5. What does the person who interrupts Olivia's abortion do?
(a) Cries and begs.
(b) Holds her tight.
(c) Takes her home.
(d) Looks into her eyes.
6. Where does the narrator take a room in the final chapter?
(a) In Maji's hut.
(b) In her grandmother's town.
(c) In the mountain house where Olivia last lived.
(d) In town X, in the Himalayas.
7. 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.
8. What is one benefit of the hotter weather in Section 25?
(a) The mangoes are very sweet.
(b) The palace opens a pool to the public.
(c) The grove plants thrive.
(d) The merchants at the bazaar are lazy and offer deals.
9. What is different about Chid when he returns on August 15th?
(a) He is crippled.
(b) He is married.
(c) He is a father.
(d) He is a Christian.
10. Where does the narrator say that Douglas's only son grows up?
(a) With Olivia in a Himalayan town.
(b) In England and America.
(c) In Satipur City.
(d) In India and England.
11. How does the narrator feel about her pregnancy when she visits Maji's hut?
(a) She ends up in a state of rapture.
(b) She wants to share it with Inder Lal.
(c) She is desperate to end it.
(d) She is uncertain about it.
12. Where do the narrator and Inder Lal go together in Section 25?
(a) To the Suttee Shrine.
(b) To a healer.
(c) To Baba Firdau's Shrine.
(d) To a Hindu celebration.
13. What is Chid's status in Section 30?
(a) He has been released from the hospital.
(b) He is dying.
(c) He is comatose.
(d) He is admitted to the hopsital.
14. Who offers to perform an abortion for the pregnant person on July 31st?
(a) Chid.
(b) Ritu.
(c) Maji.
(d) Inder Lal's mother.
15. Who tells the narrator the old beggar woman's name?
(a) Inder Lal's mother.
(b) Maji.
(c) The laundry woman.
(d) Ruti.
Short Answer Questions
1. Describe Chid's health upon his August 15th return.
2. Who interrupts Olivia's abortion?
3. Who does the Nawab have a meeting with on the day that Olivia tells him that she is pregnant?
4. How long does the narrator intend to stay at her proposed destination at the end of the story?
5. What is true of the weather in Section 23?
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