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A Passage to India | Part I, Chapters IX – XI: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. Why is Rafi called “the Sherlock Holmes of Chandrapore”? Is he an accurate detective?

2. How do Aziz’s visitors react to the poem he recites?

3. Why does Fielding’s remark about atheism lead the Indians to ask him why the English are justified in holding India?

4. What is the reply Fielding could have made and doesn’t? Why not?

5. Why are the Indians unable to understand the terms in which Fielding is talking?

6. Why had Aziz ordered his servant not to bring Fielding’s horse when the other visitors...


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