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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. In Chapter 1, how did Saroo remember getting food in India?
(a) Take a pot to people's houses and beg for food.
(b) Wander through crowds begging.
(c) Go through garbage.
(d) Sit on the side of the road and beg.

2. In Chapter 2, how old was Saroo's brother Guddu when he went to work washing dishes?
(a) 11.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

3. In Chapter 4, what was the first food that Mrs. Sood got Saroo?
(a) Star fruit.
(b) Banana.
(c) Mango.
(d) Orange.

4. In the Prologue, when was the last time that the author stood near his family's home in India?
(a) When he was 6.
(b) When he was 7.
(c) When he was 3.
(d) When he was 5.

5. How old was Saroo when he and his family had to visit his father's and his new wife's baby in Chapter 2?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what was the name of the suburb where Saroo went to school?

2. In Chapter 4, how many people died during the Stoneman murders?

3. In Chapter 4, what color was the book that Saroo's new parents created for him with photographs of them and their home?

4. In Chapter 2, what was the only thing that Saroo remembered his father giving them?

5. In Chapter 5, what was Saroo's favorite toy that the Brierly's gave him when he arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Prologue, what conversation did Saroo have with a man near the place where his family lived?

2. In Chapter 6, how did Sue and John Brierly meet?

3. In Chapter 3, what did Saroo find by the river?

4. In Chapter 3, what happened when Saroo almost drowned in the river?

5. In Chapter 4, where did Saroo travel to get to his new home?

6. In Chapter 6, what vision did Sue have when she was 12?

7. In Chapter 6, who were Sue Brierly's parents, and where did they come from?

8. In Chapter 4, why did a teenage boy take Saroo to a police station?

9. In Chapter 2, how did Saroo get lost?

10. At the end of Chapter 3, who was kind to Saroo, and why did Saroo run from him and people the man knew?

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