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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 rank was Tusker in the armed forces?
2. What does Tusker say happened to the actress years later?
3. Who does Lucy have imaginary conversations with?
4. Where did Tusker and Lucy stay during the war?
5. What does Joseph do with the lawn mower?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the character of Mrs. Bhoolabhoy. How does she behave and how do the people around her react to her behavior?
2. Why does Tusker cry in the bathroom?
3. What does Ibrahim dress in when Col. and Mrs. Smalley are guests at the Pankot Rifles Mess? What is this a symbol of?
4. Why do you think Joseph left Rampur and the sisters?
5. Why is Tusker called Tusker? How did he get the nickname? There are two stories.
6. Where is the Shiraz in relation to the Lodges and what effect does their location have on the Lodges?
7. How does Tusker know that he is not hallucinating the mali? What does he decide to do about it?
8. How did Tusker mark Lucy in India as a woman who had to work?
9. How does the reader know that Tusker was reading the letter when he died?
10. What does it say about Tusker and Lucy's ability to communicate when neither of them acknowledges the new mali?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Lucy describes her life as sad? What is her history? What is her present?
Essay Topic 2
Why can Lucy no longer trust Tusker? What happened in their past that leaves Lucy feeling alone?
Essay Topic 3
Lucy describes her life as sad. This is a special moment when she comes to this realization. For just a moment, she stops pretending. What about Lucy's life is sad? Why is she, in this moment, honest with herself? Why does she break from her own convention of upholding her facade? Why does the letter from Sarah bring out this reaction in Lucy?
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