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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lend Me Your Light.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jaakaylee sleep outside the flat after the Christmas midnight mass?
(a) She has no key.
(b) Everyone else does it.
(c) The weather is always pleasant.
(d) It is a neighborhood custom.

2. Where do the bai and seth go when they leave Jaakaylee to watch the children for the first time?
(a) To a neighbor's dinner party.
(b) To the cinema.
(c) To midnight mass.
(d) To a New Year's Eve dance.

3. What does Daddy tell Kersi they will find the money to do for him one day?
(a) Buy him a new cricket bat.
(b) Buy him a business.
(c) Get him a fridge.
(d) Send him to America.

4. What are Daddy's tweezers compared to?
(a) A razor.
(b) A cricket bat.
(c) The needle in Virag's father.
(d) The kerosene going into the stove.

5. What does Jaakaylee consider herself to be an expert at?
(a) Babysitting.
(b) Scaring off ghosts.
(c) Praying.
(d) Cockroach killing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the children and adults in Firozsha Baag making fun of Jaakaylee?

2. What religion does Jaakaylee follow?

3. What words does Kersi have trouble expressing?

4. Where does Father see the ghosts?

5. In Kersi's imagined morality play while watching a crowd in Bombay, what does the train represent?

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