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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. Which of the following movies does Kalu reenact?

2. Who is Fatima’s friend?

3. Into what hospital is Fatima admitted?

4. Who runs the local orphanage?

5. What novel’s plot confuses Manju?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Abdul hide in his storage shed?

2. What is the purpose of the beatings local police administer to their detainees?

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

4. What local difficulties does the text note that monsoon season presents?

5. For what reason do locals in the text favor improving the shacks where they live?

6. Why does Abdul believe others in the area hold his family in disregard?

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

8. Why does Abdul regard the improvements to his family home as unwise?

9. What is the ghost house to which Zehrunisa refers?

10. Why is Avinash unsuitable to be a slumlord?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Behind the Beautiful Forevers should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention focuses on the following comment: “India still made a person know his place, and wishing things different struck Abdul as a childish pastime, like trying to write your name in a bowl of melted kulfi” (15). What might attract attention thereto, and why might it do so?

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