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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 Azad wear on his wedding day?
(a) An ivory tie.
(b) A black suit.
(c) A red dasiki.
(d) An ivory dhoti kurta.

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

3. How many days does Jivan's trial go on for?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

4. Who does Azad marry in Part III?
(a) Suri.
(b) Shabnam.
(c) Mawal.
(d) Sali.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the casting director Lovely sees in Part III?

2. What does Jivan's mother do that gives Jivan strength in Part IV?

3. When is the Durga Pujo festival?

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

5. What makes Jivan's head swoon when she first begins work in the prison kitchen in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jivan's mother do for her that gives her strength in Part IV?

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

4. What important piece of evidence is thrown out in Jivan's trial?

5. How does Lovely feel when she goes to Azad's wedding?

6. Why does Lovely leave her home as a young person?

7. What does Jivan do as she waits on the train platform, and why?

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

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

10. What does Purnendu eventually write about Jivan?

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