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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 is celebrated with water balloons in the text?

2. How old is Meena?

3. Which police officer is tasked with harvesting cadavers for a medical college?

4. Which of Asha’s relatives walks on all fours?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the text, how are fast-track trials conducted?

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

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

6. How does Sunil know that almonds have ripened?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Given their circumstances, how do the participants in the events of the book avoid despair? What does their success at doing so offer readers far removed from those circumstances?

Essay Topic 2

In the book, Abdul considers Fatima: “At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope—that the good fortune of others might one day be hers” (88). Is Abdul’s assessment of Fatima accurate? What in the text demonstrates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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

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