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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 group does Jehangir join in college where he feels like a gatecrasher at an exclusive party?
(a) Fraternity.
(b) Swim Team.
(c) Debate Team.
(d) Choir.

2. What does one man in line to see Bhagwan Baba tell the others most definitely signifies something?
(a) When the sun goes down.
(b) The bench-swing on the veranda.
(c) Bhagwan Bab's white pyjamas.
(d) When Bhagwan Baba removes his sunglasses.

3. What does Viraf's and Kersi's private signal sound like?
(a) Knuckles cracking.
(b) A yodel.
(c) A bird song.
(d) Finger-snapping.

4. What is Jehangir tempted to do when he hides in the hedges of the playground to watch the exercisers after having seen Bhagwan Baba?
(a) Run away with Behroze.
(b) Exercise with the men.
(c) Leave home.
(d) Step out and laugh at the men.

5. Why do Boman and Kashmira decide they need the entire flat back for themselves?
(a) Korshedbai becomes unpredictable.
(b) They no longer need the money.
(c) They want their privacy and the veranda.
(d) Kashmira becomes pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Daddy's tweezers compared to?

2. At the end of "Squatter," what tale does Nariman agree to tell the next time?

3. What does Kersi do that surprises Daddy?

4. In the story "Squatter," how could people tell when Nariman Hansotia was in a good mood?

5. What brave thing did Kersi do on the cricket field one day?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sarosh's troubles in Toronto really reflect upon?

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

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

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

6. Why does Nariman like to use big, new words when telling his stories to the boys?

7. In "Exercisers," how does Jehangir feel about the boys who have come to college from the co-educational schools?

8. In "Of White Hairs and Cricket," why does Daddy have Kersi pulling the white hairs out of his head?

9. What is an example of Kersi holding back his true feelings?

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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