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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Patla Babu and Jhaaria Babu?
(a) Beggars.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Street peddlers.
(d) Schoolboys.

2. What becomes a dream deferred for Minocher?
(a) Trying oxtail soup.
(b) Giving clothing to the poor.
(c) Eating frog's legs.
(d) Drinking Ostermilk.

3. What does Najamai point out to Daulat as being incorrect in her home?
(a) Music is playing.
(b) She has a pugree headdress on display.
(c) The lamp beside Minocher's bed is on.
(d) She is wearing the wrong colors.

4. What does Najamai from C Block stop by to tell Kashmira at times?
(a) The elderly couple are not Parsis.
(b) Rumors about Kordshedbai.
(c) She wants the elderly couple evicted.
(d) About the droppings at her door.

5. What does Kersi do his cricket bat at the end of the story, "One Sunday?"
(a) Repairs it again.
(b) Puts on the rubber grip.
(c) Untangles the cord.
(d) Smashes it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pesi's single most important talent?

2. What does Kersi read to cure himself of the blues?

3. What is Dr. Mody's favorite activity?

4. What does Daulat discover between the bedpost and the floor as she sprays for bedbugs?

5. What is Daulat anxiously expecting every time her doorbell rings?

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