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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. Why does the prison Jivan is kept in decide to try to improve its grounds in Part IV?
(a) The prison warden commands the work to be done.
(b) The state government has mandated that all prisons be improved.
(c) Jivan's presence has brought media attention to the prison.
(d) The prison received a grant for beautification.

2. What kind of food does Jivan's mother give to her and the neighbors in celebration of her passing her exam?
(a) Meringues.
(b) Lemon biscuits.
(c) Milk sweets.
(d) Cadbury chocolates.

3. What happens to Lovely's closest sister in the hijra house?
(a) She dies of cancer.
(b) She dies after a botched gender reassignment surgery.
(c) She is kicked out of the hijra house by the owner.
(d) She is taken to prison for a minor offense.

4. Where does Jivan's mother routinely go in the middle of the night near the railway tracks in Part III?
(a) The illegal market.
(b) The river.
(c) The prayer service.
(d) The nightclub.

5. What does Purnendu tell Jivan his editor is doing with her story?
(a) Making it shorter.
(b) Making it better.
(c) Making it longer.
(d) Making it more accessible to the people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What festival does JIvan tell Purnendu about in Part III?

3. How does the court react to Lovely's testimony?

4. How does Jivan's mother react to her sentencing?

5. What job does Jivan receive in improving the look of the prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ragini go to a dentist for a surgery having to do with sex resassignment?

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

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

4. What does Jivan tell Purnendu she is guilty of?

5. What does Mr. Debnath tell Lovely in Part III that lifts her spirits?

6. How does Jivan feel about what Purnendu writes about her?

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

8. What does Purnendu eventually write about Jivan?

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

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

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