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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what school had Amit been educated?
(a) St. Paul's day school.
(b) Shiva day school.
(c) St. Xavier's day school.
(d) St. Peter's day school.

2. Who does Mrs. Rupa learn in a letter had miscarried in Part 15?
(a) Meenakshi.
(b) Kakoli.
(c) Lata.
(d) Savita.

3. Who is Tasneem's actual mother?
(a) Savita Mehra.
(b) Mrs. Rupa Mehra.
(c) Lata Mehra.
(d) Saeeda Bai.

4. Who is imprisoned after a bloody incident at Saeeda Bai's house in Part 17?
(a) Pran.
(b) Haresh.
(c) Arun.
(d) Maan.

5. Who is forcibly removed from the court chamber in Part 11?
(a) Mahesh Kapoor.
(b) Maan Kapoor.
(c) Arun Chatterji.
(d) The Raja of Marh.

6. Who gives birth to a daughter in Part 13?
(a) Meenakshi.
(b) Savita.
(c) Kakoli.
(d) Lata.

7. In what year did India gain independence from Great Britain?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1962.

8. Who, along with two of his friends, gets into serious trouble and is threatened with expulsion from the university in Part 12?
(a) Arun Chatterji.
(b) Dipankar.
(c) Kabir Durrani.
(d) Rajkumar.

9. Where is Mrs. Rupa in the beginning of Part 15?
(a) Calcutta.
(b) Mumbai.
(c) Delhi.
(d) Brahmpur.

10. What servant of Saeeda Bai's does Maan embrace in Part 12?
(a) Bibbo.
(b) Dipankar.
(c) Rajkumar.
(d) Tasmeen.

11. Who desires to go to university to become a lawyer in Part 13?
(a) Savita.
(b) Lata.
(c) Arun.
(d) Dipankar.

12. Who has committed suicide following the finding that the Zamindari Act is constitutional in Part 19?
(a) Rasheed.
(b) Amit.
(c) Tapan.
(d) Lata.

13. Lata attends a poetry reading by whom in Part 18?
(a) Tapan.
(b) Amit.
(c) Kabir.
(d) Haresh.

14. Who has decided to join a bank in Part 16?
(a) Tapan.
(b) Haresh.
(c) Amit.
(d) Dipankar.

15. Who is the thirteen-year-old brother of Dipankar?
(a) Arun.
(b) Tapan.
(c) Kabir.
(d) Maan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is discovered to have also been frequenting the house of Saeeda Bai in Part 11?

2. In Part 18, Prof. Mishra is well aware that the votes have not come in from Mahesh's district because the counting had been interrupted by the death of who?

3. Who does Nawab Sahib invite to join him for lunch in Part 11?

4. Who insists that Jagat Ram come to the wedding in Part 19?

5. Who is subtly urged to withdraw his candidacy for head reader at the university in Part 18?

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