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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. What does Noni believe about the Nepalese?
2. Where does Biju live?
3. Who is sent to the police station after the judge is robbed?
4. What happened between the judge and his wife after these initial problems?
5. What does Biju misrepresent about himself in his letters to the cook?
Short Essay Questions
1. In chapter 11, what do we learn about Indian servants' preferences for employers?
2. In chapter 22, what does it tell us about Biju when he leaves his job at Brigitte's and begins working at the Ghandi Cafe?
3. As described in chapter 12, what is the difference between the effects of Catholic school on Sai and Noni?
4. What miscommunication exists between Biju and the cook in chapter 15?
5. Why is the judge so critical of Gyan in chapter 18?
6. In chapter 29, how does Gyan begin to view Sai?
7. In chapter 19, why does the author have both the cook and Lola experience difficulty communicating with a loved-one abroad?
8. In chapter 24, how does Harish-Harry's comments about his workers contrast with the way he treats them?
9. In chapter 3, why doesn't Bijou consider himself a man?
10. In chapter 27, why does Sai have so much trouble relating to Gyan's ideas about a Gorkha homeland?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the judge's house during the rainy season symbolize what is happening to the judge himself? What does this have to do with his past, and the way he lives his life today?
Essay Topic 2
The judge and Biju are both victims of very different types of Indian tokenization while they are abroad. The judge is allowed to join the ICS only because they want more Indian members. Biju is not permitted to apply for a green card only because he is an Indian, and there are too many Indians who want one. How is each character ultimately affected by the knowledge that he is being categorized solely on the basis of his ethnicity? Does the judge see his experience as good luck and Biju see his as bad? How do these experiences relate to the two characters' feelings about their Indian identity? How do the experiences affect their character development later on?
Essay Topic 3
Sai is constantly arguing with Gyan over his accusations about her values and behaviors. How do Sai's perceptions of herself differ from Gyan's perceptions of her? To what factors can we attribute these differences in perception?
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