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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator enjoy about the town of Mahadeo?
(a) Its energy.
(b) The calmness.
(c) The women.
(d) The music.

2. What does the teacher teach?
(a) Music.
(b) Painting.
(c) Writing.
(d) Math.

3. In Tariq Mia's opinion, what does the narrator not know enough about?
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Life.
(d) Music.

4. The teacher sends his student to collect _______.
(a) Money.
(b) Cow dung.
(c) More students.
(d) Flowers.

5. What time in his life is Tariq Mia's story set?
(a) After becoming a priest.
(b) Before he was a priest.
(c) While he was in school.
(d) After his wife died.

6. Who is the woman's teacher?
(a) Master Mohan.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Her father.
(d) An American rock star.

7. Why does Rahul Singh love the daughter?
(a) He believes they were married in a past life.
(b) She loves him.
(c) She's wealthy.
(d) She's very beautiful.

8. A man who comes to see the father says he wants to at least be near _______.
(a) A girl.
(b) God.
(c) A musician.
(d) The forest.

9. Why doesn't Tariq Mia think it would be worthwhile to try and find the Naga Baba?
(a) There is nothing left to learn from him.
(b) He's good at hiding.
(c) He's dead.
(d) He's changed his appearance.

10. In the father's lessons, what is a raga composed of?
(a) Whispers.
(b) Drum beats.
(c) Loud belting.
(d) The silence between the notes.

11. What was the perk of the woman's life as a courtesan?
(a) Respect.
(b) Fame.
(c) Opportunity.
(d) Wealth.

12. What is the Naga Baba looking for?
(a) Cremation grounds.
(b) A temple.
(c) An old friend.
(d) A new house.

13. To the narrator and to others, the Narmada is a _______ river.
(a) Evil.
(b) Useless.
(c) Puzzling.
(d) Cleansing.

14. What do the men who run the city turn into?
(a) Greedy men.
(b) Brutal soldiers.
(c) Obedient lapdogs.
(d) Charitable men.

15. When the ugly daughter was a child, she was ______ of her father.
(a) Judgmental.
(b) Envious.
(c) In awe.
(d) Defiant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bandits believe that being stung by bees on the Narmada will give them _______.

2. Why must the daughter purify herself in the river?

3. At the dance academy, what are the girls' dances supposed to convey?

4. Why has the elderly woman come to the guesthouse?

5. What skills were courtesans supposed to teach noblemen?

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