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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. How does Lovely avoid being arrested by the guard in Part IV at the tourist location?
(a) She actually does have a ticket.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She has a friend vouch for her.
(d) She tells him she is is cousin.

2. Where does Bimala Pal send PT Sir on a mission in Part III?
(a) Kolkata.
(b) New Dheli.
(c) Chalnai.
(d) Kolabanga.

3. How does Lovely sometimes refer to herself?
(a) As a man.
(b) As a changeling.
(c) As a half-half.
(d) As a hermaphrodite.

4. What does Jivan tell Purnendu is the only thing she is guilty of in Part IV?
(a) Being an idealist.
(b) Being a young woman.
(c) Being a coward.
(d) Being too optimistic.

5. What does Jivan wear to her trial?
(a) A blue sari.
(b) A red dashiki.
(c) A white skirt.
(d) A white sari.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the prison Jivan is kept in decide to try to improve its grounds in Part IV?

2. What does Jivan tell Purnendu she did when she saw a woman's purse unzipped one day on the main street?

3. What does Lovely do to try to make things a little easier for Jivan's mother and father after the verdict in Part IV?

4. How does Jivan end up going to a good school for girls in Part III?

5. Why do interviewers eventually follow Lovely to Mr. Debnath's acting class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the verdict that is returned in Jivan's trial?

2. Why are the inmates at Jivan's prison given the task of "beautifying" it?

3. How did Jivan get the chance to go to an excellent girls' school despite her poverty?

4. Why does Jivan's mother come to see Lovely in Part III?

5. How does Jivan think the other girls in her school think of her?

6. What is Jivan's family's new house like when they first see it in the Kolabagan slum?

7. What happens to Ragini after her sex reassignment surgery?

8. What does Jivan do when someone locked in the burning train beckons to her to try to save his young daughter?

9. Why does Jivan not testify at her own trial?

10. What does Jivan know happens to women who go to the prison clinic when they are feeling ill?

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