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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does the narrator describe a magician bringing to Mohan's village thirty years ago in Part One?
(a) A turtle.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A giraffe.
(d) A dove.

2. Tommy Sir tells Pramod in Part One of Manju, "Pramod, the idea that the boy has to be either real or a fake is" what?
(a) "An arbitrary belief in chance."
(b) "A very Easter piece of logic."
(c) "A very Western piece of logic."
(d) "A very standard belief."

3. At what unhygienic nearby food cart do Manju and Radha go with the spotty-necked girl before school in Part One?
(a) Thambi's Fast Food Hut.
(b) Dhobi's Fast Food Hut.
(c) Anand's Fast Food Hut.
(d) Alur's Fast Food Hut.

4. The spotty-necked girl says, regarding cricket, when she is out with Manju and Radha in Part One that nothing that does what can be called a sport?
(a) Uses a timer.
(b) Stops for lunch.
(c) Requires a bat.
(d) Requires padding.

5. What playwright does Tommy Sir quote in Part One in saying, "... they haven't spoken English in America in decades"?
(a) George Bernard Shaw.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) William Shakespeare.

6. Where does the "spotty-necked" girl's father own a chemical plant?
(a) Mankhurd.
(b) Thane.
(c) Govandi.
(d) Chembur.

7. What is the "lord's golden spear" referred to as at the Subramanya temple?
(a) The sik.
(b) The alm.
(c) The vel.
(d) The alur.

8. Where is Pramod Sawant the head cricket coach in Part One?
(a) The Bal Thackeray International School.
(b) The Ali Weinberg International School.
(c) The Mumbai Cricket Association.
(d) The London Cricket Association.

9. What word from the Prologue means "darkness"?
(a) Ital.
(b) Kannada.
(c) Hindi.
(d) Kattale.

10. What does Manju score at the Harris Shield exhibition in Part One?
(a) 412 runs.
(b) 497 runs.
(c) 362 runs.
(d) 512 runs.

11. What instrument does the legless man play at the train station, according to the narrator in Part One?
(a) Flute.
(b) Banjo.
(c) Violin.
(d) Guitar.

12. Whom does Mohan make a call to regarding the status of a piece of ancestral land in his village in Part One?
(a) Ramnath.
(b) Tommy Sir.
(c) Bal Thackeray.
(d) Alur.

13. What does Radha tell Manju he is going to buy him as soon as they have money in Part One?
(a) Shoes.
(b) A jacket.
(c) A bat.
(d) A glove.

14. What is the name of the building where Mohan moves with his sons after leaving the slum?
(a) The Sawant Building.
(b) The Talao Building.
(c) The Tattvamasi Building.
(d) The Thackeray Building.

15. Who is described as the "Permanent Boss of the city" that lives at the Matoshree compound in Part One?
(a) Pramod Sawant.
(b) Bal Thackeray.
(c) Tommy Sir.
(d) Anand Mehta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the 15-year-old student of the Ali Weinberg School in Bandra that Mohan and his sons watch on television at their new home in Part One?

2. What Biblical verse is cited in the opening of the novel with the line: "My heritage is ... like a lion in the forest; it criest out against me"?

3. How much of Mohar's sons' future earnings to become the legal property of Shri Mehta, according to the contract that Mohan has signed in Part One?

4. Who is described as "the face" of cricket in Part One?

5. What river is described in Part One as "a rock-filled sewer, lit up by egrets and the flutter of a paddy-bird returning to its nest of twigs"?

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