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Main Characters

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Before you read

10 Chapter 1 The Mosque 18

Activities

20 Chapter 2 The Bridge Party 28 Activities 30 Chapter 3 Tea at Mr Fielding’s 38 Activities 40 Chapter 4 New Friendships 48 Activities 50 Chapter 5 The Caves 58 Activities 60 Chapter 6 Trouble in Chandrapore 68 Activities 70 Chapter 7 The Trial 78 Activities 80 Chapter 8 Changes 88 Activities 90 Chapter 9 The Temple: Life Beyond Chandrapore 100 Activities 102 Focus on... E. M. Forster’s Life and Writing 104 Focus on... Religion and Race in India during Colonialism 106 Focus on... Colonialism in India 108 Focus on... Friendship in A Passage to India 110 Test yourself 111 Syllabus 112 Other Titles

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MAIN CHARACTERS

MRS MOORE

An elderly Englishwoman who travels to India with Adela Quested and befriends Dr Aziz. She hopes that Adela will marry her son, Ronny.

DR AZIZ

A young widow and father of three children. He is a local Indian doctor in Chandrapore.

RONNY HEASLOP

Mrs Moore’s son, and the Magistrate in Chandrapore.

MISS ADELA QUESTED

A young woman from England who travels to India with Mrs Moore to decide whether or not to marry her son, Ronny.

CYRIL FIELDING

The headmaster of Government College near Chandrapore.

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MRS TURTON

Mr Turton’s wife.

MR TURTON

The Collector, the highest administrative official in Chandrapore.

PROFESSOR GODBOLE

A Brahman Hindu who teaches at Government College.

MAJOR CALLENDAR

A civil surgeon (head of hospital) in Chandrapore and Dr Aziz’s superior.

MR MCBRYDE

The superintendent of police in Chandrapore.

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BEFORE YOU READ

Reading Comprehension 1

Find the correct word to fill in each gap in this text about Aziz.

Aziz is an intelligent young widower who lives (1) ________ Chandrapore, India and has three children. He’s a doctor who has a good sense of humour but is also moody and emotional. He thinks (2) ________ morality is actually part of social correctness and therefore believes (3) ________ good intentions as opposed (4) ________ the black and white idea of right or wrong. He has conflicted feelings (5) ________ the British in India but (6) ________ his contradictions, he does have affections (7) ________ some of the British people he gets to know.

Vocabulary 2 You will see these words in Chapter 1. Complete the table with the correct forms, checking the meaning in your dictionary when necessary.

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NOUN

VERB

ADJECTIVE

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symbolic

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mystery

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to open

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thankfully

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Listening 2

3 You will hear the beginning of Chapter 1. Choose the best answer A,

B, or C for the following questions.

1 The city of Chandrapore is: A enormous.

B extraordinary.

C ordinary.

2 The Ganges River in Chandrapore is: A considered holy.

B not seen because of the market.

C a popular tourist destination.

3 From the colonial area, Chandrapore looks: A attractive.

B mysterious.

C desolate.

4 Mahmoud Ali and Hamidullah were discussing: A whether British people were better than Indians.

B whether British people were friendly.

C whether Indians and British people could be friends.

5 The friends agreed that: A Indians and English people could be friends only in England.

B Indians and English people could never be friends.

C Indians and English people could only be friends in India.

6 It takes ___________ for British women to become intolerable.

A two years B two months C six months

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Chapter 1

The Mosque

2 The small city of Chandrapore is an ordinary city, except for the

mysterious Marabar Caves which are in the hills in the distance. In this city the Ganges River is not considered holy and there are no steps to walk to the water. The view of the river is hidden by the markets. The nicest houses in the city come from two hundred years ago. The rest of the landscape is dirty and dull.

Beyond the city are the British buildings which are efficient and simple.

From this view Chandrapore looks pretty because the worst parts of it are not seen because of the thick greenery and fruit trees beyond the railway running parallel to the river. People who are new to the area must be driven down to the centre in order to understand how it is in reality. The only thing that connects the two contrasting areas is the sky which is ever-present.

A young man named Aziz arrived at his uncle Hamidullah’s home by bicycle.

‘I’m so sorry for being late!’

His other friend Mahmoud Ali had arrived before him and the two of them were discussing whether Indians and English people can be friends. Mahmoud Ali and Hamidullah had been talking about their varying experiences with British people, both positive and negative.

In the end, the friends came to the decision that Indians could only be friends with an English person if they both live in England.

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‘It takes two years for an Englishman and six months for an Englishwoman in India to become unbearable,’ said Hamidullah.

3 Before dinner Aziz spoke with Hamidullah’s wife (who was also his aunt) through a purdah*.

‘You should have remarried after your wife’s death.’

‘One marriage is enough for me,’ said Aziz.

Though his children had moved to a different city to live with his mother-in-law, he could see them whenever he wanted to.

They sat down to eat dinner with Hamidullah’s cousin and Aziz happily started reading poetry aloud, something he loved to do.

The guests were entertained by this typical Indian way of publically reciting poems. Unfortunately, Aziz was interrupted by a servant who handed him a note saying that he needed to go to Major Callendar’s bungalow* right away. This made Aziz quite frustrated but Callendar, the head of the hospital, was his boss. He had to leave dinner and abandon his poetry reading to find out what Callendar needed.

On the way to the Callendars, Aziz got a puncture* in his bike tyre so he hired a tonga*to take him. As soon as Aziz arrived at Callendar's bungalow, two English ladies, Mrs Callendar and Mrs Lesley, came out of the house and rudely stepped up into his tonga and left.

Discovering that Major Callendar had gone out without having left a message for him, Aziz decided not to write a note. He simply told the servant to advise the major that Aziz had in fact come as requested. Since all the tongas of Chandrapore were at the Club and the ladies had taken his, Aziz decided to walk home.

While walking in the night air, Aziz decided to stop to rest at his favourite mosque. He always felt very at home there and believed the mosque to be a symbol of Islam and love. He was purdah a curtain worn or used by women so they are separated from men and strangers bungalow a building developed in India which is a type of low house with one storey or upper rooms on the roof

puncture a small hole in a tyre tonga a small carriage used in India led by a horse or a donkey

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filled with emotion and started to cry. Suddenly he saw a column moving which he thought might be a ghost! He had confused the column for an Englishwoman and Aziz was not happy about her being there.

‘Madam! You cannot be here. This is a mosque and it is a holy place! And take off your shoes!’ Aziz shouted angrily.

‘But I did take them off. I left them at the entrance to the mosque.

I know that God is here.’ The woman spoke cautiously.

‘I’m sorry, I thought you were just like the other English ladies.

What’s your name?’

The woman shyly told him that her name was Mrs Moore. She had decided to leave the Club earlier because she had seen play before in London and it was too hot for her inside.

‘I’m so sorry for scaring you but it isn’t a good idea to go out at night by yourself.’

This started a friendly conversation between them. Aziz told Mrs Moore that he was a doctor and she mentioned that her son was Ronny Heaslop, the City Magistrate.

Aziz knew him well. Then the two discovered that they both have two sons and a daughter. As the conversation became more relaxed, Aziz revealed that he did not like Mrs Callendar. Mrs Moore seemed to be sympathetic towards him so he continued to talk to her about how he’d been treated badly on various occasions by British people.

‘You’re an Oriental because you can sense who you like and who you don’t like,’ he told Mrs Moore before walking her to the Club.

‘I would invite you in but I am not a member,’ Mrs Moore said as they arrived at the gates.

‘I am an Indian so I can never go to the Club, not even with the

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