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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. In Chapter 3, where did Saroo learn that there were more possibilities for food in Calcutta?

2. In Chapter 3, who saved Saroo from drowning?

3. In Chapter 6, how much did Sue Brierly earn at her first job?

4. In Chapter 4, what was the house made of where a boy and his mother allowed Saroo to stay at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. What issues did Saroo have when he arrived in Australia in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 2, what did Saroo remember about his baby sister?

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

5. In Chapter 1, who did Saroo's new parents know who helped Saroo adjust to his new home?

6. In Chapter 5, how did Saroo describe his new country?

7. In Chapter 1, how did Saroo's adoptive mother try to help Saroo feel at home with her and her husband?

8. In The Prologue, what interaction did Saroo have with a young woman who lived next to his family's old home?

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

10. In Chapter 6, what happened to Sue Brierly's father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A Long Way Home is an autobiographical memoir. Why is the book an autobiography and not a biography?

Essay Topic 2

The author used Google Earth in his search for his birth family. How did he use Google Earth? What did it symbolized to him?

Essay Topic 3

There was a Hindu saying that “Everything is written” (217). What does that saying mean? What do Hindu’s believe about destiny? Why does the author believe that everything that happened to him was his destiny?

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