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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 is Jeevan stealing from his customers?

2. What does Dina pour over Om's head to cure his lice?

3. Where does Rajaram want to move in chapter 13?

4. What lie does Dina tell Mrs. Gupta about the tailors?

5. How did Rajaram kill the beggars whose hair he stole?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rajaram want to move to the Himalayas?

2. How do the established workers at the relocation camp treat the newcomers?

3. How does it come to pass that the tailors begin eating dinner in the main house?

4. How is the Beggarmaster killed?

5. How does Ibrahim react after Dina's apartment is destroyed?

6. How is Shankar killed?

7. Why does Dina lose her apartment?

8. How does Maneck die?

9. What does Dina do around the house when the tailors are off searching for a house, and how does she react when they return?

10. How does the Beggarmaster know that he is related to Shankar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The "Emergency" is a very powerful force of destruction within the novel.

Part 1.) Briefly explain what the state of Emergency within the novel was.

Part 2.) Explain the catastrophic results this state of Emergency had on the lives of the main characters.

Part 3.) Explain why you think calling the situation an emergency was validated within the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Because of the imbalance of power seen within the novel, many characters end up being victims of one abuse or another.

Part 1.) Choose one character who is seen as a victim in the novel and explain the ways that they were abused by their surroundings and explain the ways that you have seen these abuses affect the characters progression in life. How deeply were they affected?

Part 2.) Explain the ways that this character will later go on to abuse others. How does this highlight the "Circle is Complete" theme within the novel? Or, if you do not believe that this character perpetuated any abuse, explain how you think this character broke the cycle?

Essay Topic 3

Even though many of the characters are living lives of squalor, there is an innate lever of generosity within the communities.

Part 1.) Choose one character that has proven to be a generous character even though they did not have excessive means, and give three examples of their generosity.

Part 2.) Choose one character that has chosen to be stingy even though they had the means to be generous and give three examples of their stinginess.

Part 3.) Explain why you think these characters chose to react to the poverty around them in this manner.

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