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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who had the most severe problem with Lovely's gender?

3. What bad habit does Jivan pick up at Pantaloons?

4. What grade does the man making Lovely's demo tape give to her?

5. What stops Jivan's mother from continuing her business in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When and how did Lovely select her name?

4. In Part III, what does Jivan's mother do for a living?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Majumdar's language in describing some of the most harrowing action in the novel - the burning train, Jivan's experiences in prison, the mob's killing of the muslim man and his entire family, and Jivan's hanging.

Essay Topic 2

How does PT Sir justify his increasingly unethical behaviors to himself as the novel progresses? What do you think is a turning point for PT Sir in how far he is willing to go to secure his new rise in the world of politics? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What is Jivan's prison experience like, and what lessons does she learn about prison life early on? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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