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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 Nusswan think should happen to the people who live on the streets?
(a) They should be stabbed.
(b) They should be drowned.
(c) They should be shot.
(d) They should be poisoned.

2. Who does Dina order to get up off his knees, and never drop down to another human again?
(a) Om.
(b) Ishvar.
(c) Maneck.
(d) Nusswan.

3. Who teaches Om to eat with a knife and fork?
(a) Shankar.
(b) The Beggarmaster.
(c) Maneck.
(d) Nusswan.

4. Who laughs during Shankar's funeral, and asks Dina to leave with him?
(a) The Beggarmaster.
(b) Ashraf.
(c) Avinash.
(d) Nusswan.

5. Who is Mr.Valmik?
(a) Dina's doctor.
(b) Dina's teacher.
(c) Dina's partner.
(d) Dina's lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the size of the worm that passes out of Om's body described?

2. Who does Ishvar write a letter to back in the village in regards to finding Om a wife?

3. For whose funeral does Maneck return to the mountains?

4. Whose home does the Beggarmaster bring Ishvar and Om to on their first night of freedom?

5. How many rupees per week must Om and Ishvar pay the Beggarmaster in return for their freedom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dina do around the house when the tailors are off searching for a house, and how does she react when they return?

2. Why does the Beggarmaster leave Shankar on the streets even after it is revealed that they are brothers?

3. What do Om and Ishvar see when they visit their old boss, Jeevan?

4. How does Maneck die?

5. What happens when Om begins to itch with lice?

6. Why does Dina go to speak to Mrs. Gupta and what does she tell her?

7. Why are the police called to Shankar's funeral?

8. How does Ibrahim react after Dina's apartment is destroyed?

9. What happens to Rajaram that prompts him to leave his job at the government?

10. How does Om lose his testicles?

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