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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. In Chapter 10, where was Kallu living?

2. In Chapter 9, who went with Saroo to India?

3. In Chapter 12, what dish that his mother cooked in his childhood did Saroo remember?

4. In Chapter 10, how much less did Saroo pay for the trip to Khandwa than a trip would have cost by taxi from the airport to his hotel?

5. In Chapter 10, how long was the trip from Indore to Khandwa?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 11, why did Saroo not try to find his father?

2. In Chapter 12, who was Rochak, and how did he help Saroo?

3. In Chapter 9, how did Saroo find Burhanpur?

4. In Chapter 10, how did Saroo find his mother?

5. In Chapter 11, who heard about Saroo's story and showed up at his mother's home?

6. In Chapter 10, how did Saroo's mother know that he was her son?

7. In Chapter 8, how did Saroo describe that area that he decided to search on Google Earth and what did he wonder about the search?

8. In Chapter 10, what things did Saroo see as he drove from the airport to his hotel?

9. In Chapter 11, how had Kallu been affected by Guddu's death and Saroo's disappearance?

10. What information did Saroo find out about trains to determine what area to search for his hometown in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. What is the general feeling that readers have when they read the story? How does the mood change in various sections of the book? What is the overall mood in the book?

Essay Topic 3

The Brierlys had a worldview that led them to adopt, rather than give birth to children. What worldview did the Brierlys subscribe to that led them not to give birth to children? How did that worldview lead them to adopt?

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