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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 is the name of Asha’s husband?

2. In what year does “Between Roses” begin?

3. To which of the following is Fatima compared?

4. How old is Manju?

5. In what kind of sect had Adbul been raised?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the recycling plant owners wear white?

2. What does Abdul identify as Karam’s major flaw?

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

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

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

6. In what work does Abdul specialize?

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

8. For what reasons do Abdul’s parents favor their selection of a wife for him?

9. Why does Zehrunisa worry about her fifth son?

10. How does Fatima perceive herself as increased after her self-immolation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Behind the Beautiful Forevers? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Behind the Beautiful Forevers do so for the present book? How or how not?

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