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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. From where do jihadis attack Mumbai?

2. At which of the following is Asha employed?

3. What brand of rat poison does Meena use?

4. What community group does Manju join?

5. Per the text, which of the following does Freud identify as a main group of fantasy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What familial duty does Manju carry out at the wedding in her mother’s hometown?

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

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

4. How does Cynthia’s testimony go awry?

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

6. Why are Abdul’s compatriots accepting of deceptions in narratives?

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

8. Why is the wedding Asha and her family attend in her hometown subdued?

9. Why does Rahul decline to help the injured scavenger he sees beside the road?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than creative nonfiction might Behind the Beautiful Forevers be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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