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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Subha" - "The Castaway".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ratan not ask when he tells her that he is leaving?
(a) Will he take her with him?
(b) When will he come back?
(c) Who will replace him?
(d) Where is he going?

2. What is Sharat's wife named?
(a) Jhumpa.
(b) Piyali.
(c) Kiran.
(d) Kajol.

3. Which children are Subha's primary companions?
(a) The postmaster's daughters.
(b) The children of the boatmen.
(c) None, for the other children never play with her.
(d) The twins who play by the fishing huts.

4. In "Once There Was a King," what decision does the king make at his dinner with the queen?
(a) He will attack the castle of his treacherous brother.
(b) He will marry his daughter to the first man he sees upon leaving the palace.
(c) He will hold a grand tournament for the hand of his daughter.
(d) He will go back to the forest and never return.

5. Who does Nilkanta try to learn from?
(a) Sharat's agent.
(b) Sharat's mother.
(c) Sharat.
(d) Kiran.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Haralal is wandering through Calcutta, who asks him about the address on an envelope?

2. When does the carriage driver stop to shake Haralal?

3. What goes missing the day before the family is to return home?

4. What is the narrator doing when Rahman is arrested?

5. What does Haralal do when his salary is raised to 40 rupees a month?

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