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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gustad waiting expectantly for at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) His birthday.
(b) The birth of a grandchild.
(c) A letter from Major Bilimoria.
(d) The elections.

2. In Chapter 5, who is involved in a car accident that Gustad and Dinshawji witness?
(a) The taxi driver who hit Gustad nine years earlier.
(b) Dr. Paymaster.
(c) The manager of the bank.
(d) The mayor.

3. What is Gustad doing in the first part of Chapter 1?
(a) Trimming the hedges.
(b) Praying.
(c) Mowing the lawn.
(d) Buying coffee.

4. Who yells at the bhaiya in Chapter 1?
(a) Miss Kutpitia.
(b) Gustad.
(c) Roshan.
(d) Dilnavaz.

5. How long has Gustad worked for the bank?
(a) Twelve years.
(b) Twenty-four years.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first part of Chapter 9, on what subject is Cavasji yelling out the window?

2. Who does Gustad receive a letter from in the second part of Chapter 6?

3. According to Miss Kutpitia, what is causing Roshan's illness?

4. According to Gustad's memories in Chapter 4, what are he and young Sohrab going to eat at K. Rustom & Co.?

5. Who is the Indian Tennyson of Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the crowd surrounding Gustad's accident to come to a heated debate with regard to the water seller?

2. Describe what happened with Dr. Paymaster's sign.

3. Describe the omen that causes Miss Kutpitia not to be able to come to dinner.

4. What does the letter from Sister Constance say, and how does Gustad respond?

5. What does the notice that Gustad finds at the end of Chapter 1state? Why does it matter to the residents of the Khodadad Building?

6. Describe what happened with Sohrab's endeavors in studying insects.

7. What is Dilnavaz doing when she "touches wood"?

8. Describe Gustad's choice of writing utensil when writing to Major Bilimoria in Chapter 4.

9. What are some of Tehmul's idiosyncrasies?

10. What three things are worrying Gustad at the beginning of Chapter 9?

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