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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 200 - 265).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jai get a job?
(a) To pay for school.
(b) To give to Runu-Didi for her new uniform.
(c) To give to Faiz for his family's food.
(d) To replace the money he took from the Parachute tub.

2. What day of the week does Jai work?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Sunday.

3. How does Pari plan on returning her ticket money to Faiz?
(a) By working.
(b) By stealing food to give to him and his family.
(c) By teaching cooking classes.
(d) She does not know.

4. What does Jai hear his Ma's hi-fi lady tell her over the phone in Part IV?
(a) She is fired.
(b) She has one more chance.
(c) She is a terrible cook.
(d) She can find a hundred people to do her job.

5. What does Runu-Didi say that prompts her father to slap her?
(a) She tells her parents she will go to college no matter what.
(b) She asks her parents why they had Jai if they could not look after him.
(c) She tells her parents she is running away.
(d) She tells her parents they are poor and ignorant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jai's and Runu's father tell them very seriously in Part III?

2. Where does one of the Muslim siblings have to go to find the other in Part IV?

3. Why does Jai think Quarter might possibly be the one snatching children?

4. What is Jai's plan for helping to find Omvir after he begins his new job in Part III?

5. Why do Omvir's classmates not have much to say about him?

(see the answer key)

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