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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 is Channan Pir known as?

2. What are the men sitting around the fire doing?

3. What does the shrine of Channan Pir look like?

4. How does Shabanu feel about how her sister keeps herself covered as a bride-to-be?

5. Who trains the Desert Rangers to look after life on the desert?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shabanu realize as she tells Phulan all about the Sibi fair?

2. Who is Sharma and how does Auntie feel about her?

3. How does Dadi respond when Shabanu asks him if he was afraid of the Bugtis tribesmen who stopped their caravan?

4. What does Guluband represent to Shabanu?

5. Why does Mama worry about Shabanu's future?

6. What present does Dadi give Shabanu before they leave Sibi?

7. What do the men traveling to the fair talk about as they sit by the fire with Dadi?

8. What is the special relationship between Shabanu and her camel?

9. Describe the scene when Wardak returns to buy Guluband.

10. What kind of attention does Shabanu's herd of camels get at the Sibi fair?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Shabanu's love for the animals represent both her freedom and her undoing?

Essay Topic 2

How is Shabanu's life defined more by her losses than anything she has gained? What loss in particular has had the most transformational power in her life?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the symbolic significance of the camels both collectively and individually throughout the novel.

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