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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 brand of rat poison does Meena use?

2. How old is Meena?

3. As which of the following does the text gloss the term “taufeez”?

4. Where do Kalu’s father and brother go to find work?

5. To which of the following is Kalu compared?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Manju plan to escape an arranged marriage to a rural soldier?

2. What role does Manju typically play in her community group’s training?

3. How does Manju persuade her mother to let her wear jeans?

4. To what does Meena’s family ascribe her death?

5. Why do Sunil and Kalu like to look at their slum from a pile of rubble?

6. What is Asha’s main regret as her political career advances?

7. Why did India set up high-speed courts, per the text?

8. How does Sunil know that almonds have ripened?

9. Summarize Priya’s testimony in Karam’s case.

10. For what reasons does Asha have sex with men not her husband?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, characters within the text repeatedly use the term “corruption.” Explicate the term’s various uses and overall meaning within the book.

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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