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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. What does Jehangir have to do after putting old and wrinkled money in the budget envelopes?
2. How does Edul's wife describe Nariman's home?
3. What does Yezad tell Vilas he is troubled about?
4. What upsets the inspector most about the Parsi community?
5. What message does Mrs. Kapur have for Yezad when he meets her at the store?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Mr. Kapur's wife's reasons for not wanting him to run for public office?
2. What happens to Yezad's work situation after Kapur's death?
3. What does Yezad learn when he calls Mr. Kapur to say he will not be in to work because of Coomy's death?
4. In what ways do Jal and Yezad begin to act differently after Coomy and Kapur's deaths?
5. What is significant about the introduction of Daisy Ichamora to Nariman?
6. What changes in behavior does Kapur make in order to become more like the common people?
7. As the family leaves Pleasant Villa for the last time, Roxana and Jehangir look out the car window and see the same bird, but each one interprets it differently. How do Roxana and Jehangir see the bird differently?
8. When Yezad wakes up during the night with chest pains, what does he attribute the cause to?
9. What excuses do Roxana and Yezad make for Jehangir when his teacher tells them Jehangir has been taking bribes as homework monitor? How is Jehangir punished?
10. What are some of Yezad's thoughts and actions in Chapter 15 that show he is changing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare the differences in Coomy, who seems to have everything, and Roxana, who has to scrape to get by. How does each woman relate to her family? Are the reasons for the differences caused by personality, social standing, security? Discuss which you think is the more balanced and happier of the two and tell why.
Essay Topic 2
There are several negative forces in Family Matters: Coomy's nagging and crabbiness, Yasmin marrying for security instead of love, the constant search for money. And there are also several positive forces in the story: Yezad's search for faith, the love between Murad and Jehangir, Nariman's undying devotion to Lucy. Compare and contrast the positive and negative forces in Family Matters and show how each serve to move the story along and lend to its entirety.
Essay Topic 3
Who seem to be the stronger characters in Family Matters, the men or the women? Does that change through the course of the story? Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the characters and tell whether you think they are related to gender or are just an author's rendering.
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