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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 color are the public toilets near where the Husains live?

2. How does the text gloss the term “ghamand”?

3. In what ward does Asha live?

4. Which of the following is commissioned to improve the local airport?

5. Which of the following had Zehrunisa farmed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are bottle caps a particular nuisance?

2. For what reasons did her neighbors consider Fatima a joke?

3. Why do the recycling plant owners wear white?

4. Why does Abdul think his heart is too small?

5. How does Asha’s self-help group scheme work?

6. Why does Asha balk at her political supervisor’s request for an area meeting?

7. Why does Abdul dislike sorting polyurethane bags?

8. Per the text, why had families encouraged widows to self-immolate on their husbands’ pyres?

9. Why does Sunil scavenge on a ledge above a river?

10. Why does Zehrunisa worry about her fifth son?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Behind the Beautiful Forevers. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

What character is the protagonist of Behind the Beautiful Forevers? How does the book support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Boo’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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