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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Sue Brierly born?
2. In Chapter 1, what birthdate was on Saroo's official documents?
3. In Chapter 2, what was the only thing that Saroo remembered his father giving them?
4. In Chapter 6, how old was Sue Brierly when she left school and got her first job?
5. In Chapter 1, where was Saroo born?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 5, why did the Brierlys cancel a trip to India?
2. In Chapter 2, how did Saroo get lost?
3. In the Prologue, how does Saroo describe the place where his family used to live?
4. In Chapter 4, why did a teenage boy take Saroo to a police station?
5. In Chapter 1, how easily did Saroo transition to life in a new country and culture?
6. What was the Liluah Juvenile detention center like that Saroo was taken to in Chapter 4?
7. In Chapter 6, what happened to Sue Brierly's father?
8. In The Prologue, what interaction did Saroo have with a young woman who lived next to his family's old home?
9. In Chapter 5, how did Saroo interact with his new parents at the airport in Melbourne?
10. In Chapter 4, how did Saroo get invited to someone's home after he quit hanging around the railway station?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author’s story begins when he was five and ends when he is a young man. How did the experiences that the author had help him grow, mature, and become a responsible young man?
Essay Topic 2
Eventually the author’s search for his birth family consumed him. How did the author’s search change from an on-again-off-again project? Why would he have been considered to be obsessed with his search after a while?
Essay Topic 3
The author stated that he had two families. In what way did the author say that he was still the same person as he was before he went to India? What did finding his birth family change? Why did it not change the author?
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