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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 6, how old was Saroo when his mother's father died?

2. In Chapter 4 at the Liluah juvenile home, how many children would sleep in a bed?

3. In Chapter 1, where did Saroo grow up?

4. In the Prologue, what was the name of the place where Saroo hoped to find his family?

5. In Chapter 1 after Saroo was adopted, how long did it take for him to be able to explain that a train took him to Calcutta?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the Prologue, how does Saroo describe the place where his family used to live?

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

5. In Chapter 1, how easily did Saroo transition to life in a new country and culture?

6. In Chapter 5, why did the Brierlys cancel a trip to India?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the author visited his Indian family, he learned that his brother Guddu had died. How did the author feel when he learned of his brother’s death? Why did the grief overwhelm him so much when the death had happened so long ago?

Essay Topic 2

The author’s story begins when he was five and ends when he is a young man. How did the experiences that the author had help him grow, mature, and become a responsible young man?

Essay Topic 3

The author stated that he had two families. In what way did the author say that he was still the same person as he was before he went to India? What did finding his birth family change? Why did it not change the author?

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