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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 Korshedbai end up taking from Kashmira?
(a) Her dignity.
(b) The rent money.
(c) Her baby.
(d) A parrot cage.

2. What plan does Boman have to evict the paying guests?
(a) Photographs.
(b) None.
(c) Non-payment of rent.
(d) A lawsuit.

3. What does CNI stand for?
(a) Crappus Nutrition Information.
(b) Canadian Non Immigration.
(c) Crappus Non Interruptus.
(d) Canape New Information.

4. Who is Mamajii?
(a) The neighbor, Nariman.
(b) Viraf's mother.
(c) Kersi's grandmother.
(d) Kersi's mother.

5. What happens to Navjeet by Percy's account?
(a) He returns to Bombay for good.
(b) He is murdered.
(c) He steals the seed money.
(d) He murders one of the money-lenders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the compound watchman happy when Nariman tells the boys a story?

2. What infection does Kersi suffer the last night before his flight to Toronto?

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

4. What entrances Kersi?

5. What school degree does Mr. Karani hold?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What problem does Boman have with taking Mr Karani's advice to not take in paying guests?

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

8. Why is it Jehangir's doing that he and his parents are going to visit Bhagwan Baba for advice on his new girlfriend?

9. Why does Kersi want to cry at the end of the story, "Of White Hairs and Cricket?"

10. For most of her life, Khorshedbai has an image in her mind of a flock of crows. What is this image?

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