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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. What does PT Sir's wife think about Bimala Pal's tactics?
(a) She thinks Pal is a demagogue.
(b) She thinks Pal is lying to preserve her own position.
(c) She thinks Pal is a friend only to the wealthy.
(d) She thinks Pal is pandering to the unemployed.

2. What group of people does Lovely belong to?
(a) Mehta.
(b) Beha.
(c) Mirha.
(d) Hijra.

3. How does PT Sir know Jivan?
(a) She is his daughter's friend.
(b) She was a student teacher of his.
(c) She was once his student.
(d) She was a co-worker.

4. Why is Gobind's wife upset with him in Part II?
(a) She thinks it shows weakness to go to therapy.
(b) She resents him for enjoying make-up.
(c) She thinks he works too much.
(d) He spends too much money on his guru's recommendations.

5. What problem does Jivan help her family solve in their house in Part II?
(a) She convinces the town clerk to put in a sewage system.
(b) She convinces the town clerk to solve their problem with dirty water.
(c) She convinces the police to leave them alone in their house.
(d) She convinces the bank clerk to give them a loan for their home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jivan's father injured in Part II?

2. What does Jivan do in order to try to ask Uma madam for a favor?

3. What kind of work did Jivan's father once do?

4. Who is Lovely's acting teacher?

5. Who is Jivan's lawyer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one of the first things PT Sir remembers about Jivan when she was his student?

2. Why does PT Sir's wife suggest Bimala Pal came to his school one day?

3. In Part II, what does the mother of the bride want Lovely to tell her about her skin?

4. Who does Azad think was speaking to Lovely about his relationship with her in Part I, and why does this upset him?

5. In Part I, what is the event that leads to Jivan's arrest?

6. In Part II, how does the doctor treat Jivan's father after his back pain begins?

7. What kinds of "bombs" did Jivan tell the reporter she and her family threw at the police?

8. Who does Americandi speak to about letting the reporter into the jail to talk to Jivan, and why?

9. Why does Americandi agree to help Jivan set up an interview with a reporter?

10. Who does Jivan ask her lawyer Gobind to try to find to testify in her favor, and why?

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