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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ranga end up doing for a living?
(a) Selling bread.
(b) Painting portraits.
(c) Sharpening knives.
(d) Being a journalist.

2. What has happened to Sambu's father?
(a) He has died.
(b) No one is sure, but he is missing.
(c) He has been jailed.
(d) He ran away.

3. Who is Naga?
(a) A boy's snake.
(b) A boy's pet dog.
(c) A boy's sister.
(d) A boy's pet rat.

4. Who does the landlord call to get rid of the noises in his building?
(a) An exterminator.
(b) The police.
(c) His cousins.
(d) An exorcist.

5. How old is Sambu?
(a) Very young, perhaps 8 or so.
(b) A young teenager, perhaps 13 or so.
(c) A grown man.
(d) An older teenager, perhaps 18 or so.

6. Who is the man with the tufted beard that Sambu's mother talks to?
(a) A priest.
(b) The father of the girl he is intended to marry.
(c) Sambu's true father.
(d) Her secret lover.

7. What does the landlord use as a burglar alarm?
(a) Two security guards.
(b) An electric fence.
(c) A silent alarm that can alert the police.
(d) Tin cans placed around the building.

8. What is Sidda accused of stealing?
(a) Shoes.
(b) A necklace.
(c) Peaches from the trees.
(d) Money.

9. What has been Ayah's job for 20 years or so?
(a) She is a nanny.
(b) She is a nurse.
(c) She is a doctor.
(d) She is a teacher.

10. What animal does the boy's father capture in the forest in "Naga"?
(a) A tiny monkey.
(b) A dangerous but pretty fish.
(c) A beautiful bird.
(d) A poisonous frog.

11. Who is Dr. Kishen?
(a) Sambu's tutor.
(b) Sambu's mother's doctor.
(c) The president of the nearby university where Sambu wants to go.
(d) Sambu's professional name.

12. What does the hippie ask the cobbler if he believes in?
(a) The kind of shoe polish he uses.
(b) Fate.
(c) The devil.
(d) God.

13. What god does the cobbler think might be testing him through the hippie?
(a) Shiva.
(b) Garuda.
(c) Brahma.
(d) Ganesha.

14. Who is Radha?
(a) Radh's boss.
(b) Radha's wife.
(c) Radha's husband.
(d) A 4-year-old girl in Ayah's care.

15. What does Sambu enjoy doing all day?
(a) Playing video games.
(b) Reading philsophy books.
(c) Painting.
(d) Dancing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hippie give the cobbler to smoke?

2. What has happened to Naga?

3. On what street does Selvi's mother live?

4. How old is the lost boy?

5. Where does Ranga live?

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