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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 does Jehangir plan on telling Behroze when he visits her while her parents and Shanti are gone?
(a) They must get married.
(b) He dislikes her sarcasm.
(c) The relationship must end.
(d) He loves her.

2. What words does Kersi have trouble expressing?
(a) Bullying words.
(b) Harsh words.
(c) Words of concern.
(d) Sarcastic sayings.

3. What does Ardesar utter after watching Kordshedbai smear dog feces on the neighbor's door?
(a) Troubles, troubles.
(b) Forgive her.
(c) Forgive me, please.
(d) Oh my!

4. What does Mr. Karani warn Boman about?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Difficulties of eviction.
(c) Raising the rent.
(d) Wording the apartment ad correctly.

5. Where do Daddy and Kersi go at seven o'clock in the morning?
(a) To play cricket.
(b) Visit Viraf's father.
(c) To get chai at the Irani restaurant.
(d) To get a haircut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mamajii always try to give Kersi to eat?

2. In Kersi's imagined morality play while watching a crowd in Bombay, what does the train represent?

3. What is a ghaton?

4. What does Najamai from C Block stop by to tell Kashmira at times?

5. What are Bhagwan Baba's words of advice?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jehangir explain the meaning of the stories of Savukshaw to Nariman and the boys?

2. Why does Daddy stop taking the boys to play cricket at maidaan?

3. How did the relationship between Boman and Kasmira and the paying guests begin?

4. How does Jehangir explain to the boys the manner in which Nariman tells his stories?

5. What do Jehangir's mother and Behroze, two very different women, have in common?

6. In "Lend Me Your Light," why is Kersi's mother happy that Percy is friends with Jamshed?

7. Why does Kersi remember the word ghati with shame?

8. What are Percy's and the others' feelings when Jamshed returns to visit Bombay and takes them to an expensive restaurant?

9. Why is it that Khorshedbai's husband, Ardesar, does not question his wife's disgusting actions against the landlord?

10. How does Najamai turn out to be responsible for changing the neighbors' decision not to testify against the paying guests?

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