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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Jehangir enjoy Nariman's story so much?
2. What is the only thing Jehangir's father has to say about Jehangir's relationship with the girl from college?
3. What do the boys tease Jaakaylee about when she comes to collect the boys in her charge?
4. In Kersi's imagined morality play while watching a crowd in Bombay, what does the train represent?
5. Why does Kashmira make a comment about a pretty foreign stamp on Khorshedbai's letter?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Daddy stop taking the boys to play cricket at maidaan?
2. Why does Kersi want to cry at the end of the story, "Of White Hairs and Cricket?"
3. Why does Kersi remember the word ghati with shame?
4. In "Lend Me Your Light," why is Kersi's mother happy that Percy is friends with Jamshed?
5. What is Jehangir's status with the boys of Firozsha Baag by the time of the Squatter story?
6. In "Exercisers," how does Jehangir feel about the boys who have come to college from the co-educational schools?
7. How does Jehangir explain the meaning of the stories of Savukshaw to Nariman and the boys?
8. Why does Nariman like to use big, new words when telling his stories to the boys?
9. What do Jehangir's mother and Behroze, two very different women, have in common?
10. Why does Jehangir stop going to the Hanging Gardens?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What more is learned about Nariman in the story, "Squatter?" Is Nariman as popular in Firozsha Baag as Dr. Mody once was? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Within the story, "Swimming Lessons," Father tells Mother not to confuse fact with fiction or vice versa. What is his point? How does madness become a result of this?
Essay Topic 3
In the story "Of White Hairs and Cricket", the character, Kersi, has difficulty showing some of his emotions. What lesson is there to be learned by the reader by the end of the story? What does the author attempt to convey through Kersi's character?
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