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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 26-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason precipitated the narrator riding in a particular section on the train?
(a) A budget deficit.
(b) A budget surplus.
(c) A raise.
(d) A bonus.

2. Carnehan and Dravot drew up a contract revolving around what item?
(a) Opium.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Hashish.
(d) Tobacco.

3. What type of people were described as using the "Grand Trunk Road" (11)?
(a) Ruffians.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Kings.
(d) Scholars.

4. Dravot instructed what type of person from each village to guard the stone idols in the wood?
(a) A magistrate.
(b) A priest.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A shaman.

5. One of the two men who approached Dravot and Carnehan pulled out what type of weapon in an attempt to rob the two friends?
(a) A vial of poison.
(b) A pistol.
(c) A shotgun.
(d) A knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many months of the year did the narrator say newspaper offices are often empty?

2. Upon what object did Carnehan and Dravot sit within the newspaper office?

3. How many men stood in the narrator's way when he moved to leave the newspaper office?

4. The narrator was on a train traveling to what location?

5. When Dravot went to a nearby village about a dispute, how many dead people did he find?

(see the answer key)

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