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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. Which of the following names comes up in Manju’s studies?

2. In what year does “Between Roses” begin?

3. In what year had the slum been settled?

4. Which of the following is one of Fatima’s daughters?

5. Which of the following does Robert Pires falsify?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Abdul believe others in the area hold his family in disregard?

2. What is Abdul’s primary operating principle?

3. What story does Abdul fabricate about being inside a hotel?

4. How does Fatima perceive herself as increased after her self-immolation?

5. What local difficulties does the text note that monsoon season presents?

6. How does Abdul define good fortune?

7. Why does Asha balk at her political supervisor’s request for an area meeting?

8. Per the text, why had families encouraged widows to self-immolate on their husbands’ pyres?

9. For what reason do locals in the text favor improving the shacks where they live?

10. What is the ghost house to which Zehrunisa refers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of Behind the Beautiful Forevers on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the book? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the juxtaposition of Asha’s family’s expectations in her home region and her own in Mumbai. What emerges as the most prominent feature of that juxtaposition? What makes it most prominent, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Boo’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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