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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. In his second year abroad, why does the wife of Biju's boss give him toiletries?
(a) She thinks he smells.
(b) He can't afford to buy them himself.
(c) She can get them very cheaply.
(d) It is part of his room and board arrangement.

2. What does Biju realize about Harry-Harish's two names?
(a) It is an attempt to make himself sound loftier than his employees.
(b) It is his way of standing out.
(c) It is the result of his having one Indian parent and one American parent.
(d) It is an attempt to live in two worlds and please two sets of gods.

3. How does Sai feel about the cook?
(a) She finds his lower-class status distasteful.
(b) She dislikes him.
(c) She feels close to him.
(d) She thinks their class differences are completely irrelevant.

4. Who is sent to the police station after the judge is robbed?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) The cook.
(c) The cook's son.
(d) Sai.

5. What do many of the people from Bengal begin to desire?
(a) To return to India and have their own state.
(b) To become the ruling class.
(c) To have the Indians removed from Bengal.
(d) To go to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Biju misrepresent about himself in his letters to the cook?

2. Where does Sai spend Christmas?

3. What effect does her first meeting with Gyan have on Sai?

4. Why does Gyan feel embarrassed to be seen eating with Sai?

5. What do the police examine at the cook's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 22, what does it tell us about Biju when he leaves his job at Brigitte's and begins working at the Ghandi Cafe?

2. In chapter 11, what do we learn about Indian servants' preferences for employers?

3. In chapter 29, how does Gyan begin to view Sai?

4. In chapter 23, what do Sai and Gyan discover they have in common?

5. What is the significance of the elaborate Christmas celebration in chapter 25?

6. In chapter 29, why does Gyan betray Sai?

7. In chapter 27, in what ways do Sai and Gyan view Christmas differently?

8. How does Sai's having attended a Catholic school impact her identity in terms of the people around her?

9. In chapter 27, why does Sai have so much trouble relating to Gyan's ideas about a Gorkha homeland?

10. How is the judge's house like the judge himself?

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