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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dina visit to ask for money in Chapter 9?
(a) The facilitator.
(b) Mrs. Gupta.
(c) The Beggarmaster.
(d) Nusswan.

2. What lie does Dina tell Mrs. Gupta about the tailors?
(a) That they are injured.
(b) That they are ill.
(c) That they are dead.
(d) That they are missing.

3. Whose idea was it that all four characters eat dinner together in Chapter 10?
(a) Maneck.
(b) Om.
(c) Ishvar.
(d) Dina.

4. How does Shankar react to the new garment that Om and Ishvar sew for him?
(a) He is excited.
(b) He is offended.
(c) He is confused.
(d) He is apathetic.

5. What item does Maneck hope to return to his college roommate?
(a) A sewing machine.
(b) The chess set.
(c) Some clothing.
(d) Textbooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nusswan think should happen to the people who live on the streets?

2. What article of Om's clothing does Maneck tear during their fight?

3. Who laughs during Shankar's funeral, and asks Dina to leave with him?

4. To whom is it revealed that the Beggarmaster is related?

5. Who does Ishvar write a letter to back in the village in regards to finding Om a wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rajaram want to move to the Himalayas?

2. How does the Beggarmaster know that he is related to Shankar?

3. What happens when Om begins to itch with lice?

4. What living conditions do the tailors see when they are returning home on their first night of freedom, and how does the Beggarmaster explain it?

5. Why are the police called to Shankar's funeral?

6. What happens when Dina purchases a bottle of vermifuge and gives a dose to Om?

7. How is the Beggarmaster killed?

8. Why does Dina go to speak to Mrs. Gupta and what does she tell her?

9. How is Shankar killed?

10. How does it come to pass that the tailors begin eating dinner in the main house?

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