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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 women is the first to visit Fatima in the hospital?

2. At which hotel did Rahul work?

3. From which of the following did Karam suffer?

4. In which state is Mumbai?

5. Which of the following animals are to be found in Abdul’s neighborhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what work does Abdul specialize?

2. How does the owner of the local entertainment center accrue money?

3. Why does Abdul dislike sorting polyurethane bags?

4. Why do the recycling plant owners wear white?

5. How does Abdul define good fortune?

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

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

8. Why is Avinash unsuitable to be a slumlord?

9. Why had Sunil refused to beg for money at the local orphanage?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the text. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the juxtaposition of Asha’s family’s expectations in her home region and her own in Mumbai. What emerges as the most prominent feature of that juxtaposition? What makes it most prominent, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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